The total population of Hungary is 9,688,847 people. The people of Hungary speak the Hungarian language. The linguistic diversity of Hungary is almost homogeneous according to a fractionation scale, which is 0.0297 for Hungarian. The average age is around 41.1 years. Life expectancy in Hungary is 75. Female birth rate in Hungary is 1.4. About 28% of the Hungarian population is obese. Ethnic diversity is nearly uniform according to a fractionation scale, which is 0.1522 for Hungary. Details of the language, religion, age, gender distribution and advancement of the people of Hungary can be found in the sections below, as well as the section on education in the country.

Population
In Hungary, the population density is 106 people per square kilometer (276 per square mile). Based on these statistics, this country is considered densely populated. The total population of Hungary is 9,688,847 people. Hungary has approximately 449,632 foreign immigrants. Immigrants in Hungary make up 0.3 percent of the total number of immigrants worldwide. Immigrants in Hungary make up 4.7 percent of the total number of immigrants worldwide. The ethnic diversity of Hungary is nearly uniform according to a fractionation scale based on ethnicity. Ethnic Fractionation (EF) deals with the number, size, socioeconomic distribution, and geographic location of diverse cultural groups, usually within a state or some other demarcated 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 Hungary is 0.1522. This means that the people living in Hungary come from a narrow group of ethnic groups that are all related to each other. EF is usually measured as 1 minus the Herfindahl concentration index of ethnolinguistic group proportions, which reflects the probability that two randomly drawn individuals from the population belong to different groups. The theoretical maximum of EF of 1 means that each person belongs to a different group. Read below Hungary's statistics on median age and gender distribution at different ages.

Age
The average age is around 41.1 years. The average age of men is 39.1 years and the average age of women is 43.5 years.

Gender
The sex ratio, or the number of males for every female (estimated at birth) is 1.057. It can be further broken down into the following categories: sex ratio below 15 - 1.06; sex ratio from 15 to 64 - 0.98; sex ratio over 64 - 0.57; Overall sex ratio - 0.91. The overall sex ratio differs from the sex ratio estimated at birth. This is because some newborns are included in the sex ratio estimated at birth, but die within the first few weeks of life and are not included in the overall sex ratio.

Religion
The majority religion in Hungary is Christianity, whose adherents make up 81% of all religious believers in the country. Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ as presented 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 some followers of Hinduism in Hungary. Hungary's religious diversity is quite diverse according to a fractionation scale based on the number of religions in Hungary. The index of religious fractionation in Hungary is 0.5244. This score means that there are several major religions in Hungary, evenly distributed.