The total population of Ukraine is 44,009,214 people. People in Ukraine speak the Ukrainian language. The linguistic diversity of Ukraine is diverse according to a fractionation scale, which is 0.4741 for Ukraine. The average age is around 40.6 years. Life expectancy in Ukraine is 71 years. The female fertility rate in Ukraine is 1.5. About 21% of the population of Ukraine is obese. Ethnic diversity is diverse according to a fractionation scale, which stands at 0.4737 for Ukraine. Details of the language, religion, age, gender distribution and advancement of the people of Ukraine can be found in the sections below, as well as the section on education in the country.

Population
In Ukraine, the population density is 75 people per square kilometer (195 per square mile). Based on these statistics, this country is considered sparsely populated. The total population of Ukraine is 44,009,214 people. Ukraine has approximately 4,834,898 foreign immigrants. Immigrants in Ukraine make up 2.2 percent of the total number of immigrants worldwide. Immigrants in Ukraine make up 11.4 percent of the total number of immigrants worldwide. Ethnic diversity of Ukraine is diverse according to a fractionation scale based on ethnicity. Ethnic fractionation (EF) is concerned with the number, size, socioeconomic distribution, and geographic location of different cultural groups, usually within a state or other defined area. Specific cultural characteristics can refer to language, skin color, religion, ethnicity, customs and traditions, history, or other distinctive criteria, alone or in combination. These characteristics are often used for social exclusion and power monopolization. The index of ethnic fractionation in Ukraine is 0.4737. This means that there is some diversity in Ukraine, although all people still fall into a relatively small number of major ethnic groups. EF is usually measured as 1 minus the Herfindahl concentration index of ethnolinguistic group proportions, which reflects the probability that two randomly selected individuals from the population belong to different groups. The theoretical maximum of EF of 1 means that each person belongs to a different group. Below are statistics of Ukraine on average age and gender distribution at different ages.

Old
The average age is around 40.6 years. The average age of men is 37.3 years, while the average age of women is 43.7 years.

Gender
The sex ratio, or number of males per female (estimated at birth), is 1.06. It can be further broken down into the following categories: sex ratio under 15 – 1.06; sex ratio from 15 to 64 - 0.92; sex ratio over 64 - 0.5; Overall sex ratio - 0.85. The overall sex ratio differs from the sex ratio estimated at birth. This is due to the fact that some newborns are included in the estimated sex ratio at birth, but die within the first few weeks of their lives and are not included in the overall sex ratio.

Religion
The majority religion of Ukraine is Christianity, whose adherents make up 83.8% of all believers in the country. Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ as set forth in the New Testament. Christianity is the largest religion in the world with over 2.4 billion followers known as Christians. Christians believe that Jesus is the Son of God and the Savior of mankind, whose coming as Christ or Messiah was prophesied in the Old Testament. In addition to Christianity, there are several other religions in the country. Other religions in Ukraine are Islam, Hinduism and Judaism. Religious diversity of Ukraine is quite diverse according to a fractionation scale based on the number of religions in Ukraine. Index of religious fractionalization in Ukraine is 0.6157. This value means that there are several major religions in Ukraine, evenly distributed.