The total population of Norway is 5,353,363 people. The people of Norway speak the Norwegian, Nynorsk and Bokmål languages. The linguistic diversity of Norway is vaguely diverse according to a fractionation scale, which is 0.0673 for Norway. The average age is around 39.1 years. Life expectancy in Norway is 82. Female fertility rate in Norway is 1.8. About 10% of the Norwegian population is obese. Ethnic diversity is nearly uniform according to a fractionation scale, which for Norway is 0.0586. Details of the language, religion, age, gender distribution and advancement of the people of Norway can be found in the sections below, as well as the section on education in the country.

Population
In Norway, the population density is 15.6 people per square kilometer (41 per square mile). Based on these statistics, this country is considered sparsely populated. The total population of Norway is 5,353,363 people. Norway has approximately 741,813 foreign immigrants. Immigrants in Norway make up 0.3 percent of the total number of immigrants worldwide. Immigrants in Norway account for 13.8 percent of the total number of immigrants worldwide. The ethnic diversity of Norway 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 Norway is 0.0586. This means that the people living in Norway come from a narrow group of ethnic groups, all of which are related to one another. 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 Norway's median age and gender distribution statistics at different ages below.

Old
The average age is around 39.1 years. The average age of men is 38.2, the average age of women is 39.9.

Gender
The sex ratio, or number of males per female (estimated at birth), is 1.05. It can be further broken down into the following categories: sex ratio under 15 - 1.05; sex ratio from 15 to 64 - 1.03; sex ratio over 64 - 0.75; Overall sex ratio - 0.98. 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
Norway's majority religion is Christianity, adherents to which make up 84.7% 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. Besides Christianity, there are several other religions in the country. Other religions in Norway are Buddhism, folk religions. Norway's religious diversity is vaguely diverse according to a fractionation scale based on the number of religions in Norway. The index of religious fractionation in Norway is 0.2048. This score means that within the country there is a major belief with a few other subordinate beliefs.