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The total population of Zimbabwe is 16,913,261 people. The people of Zimbabwe speak the Shona, English and Ndebele languages. The linguistic diversity of Zimbabwe is diverse according to a fractionation scale which is 0.4472 for Zimbabwe. The average age is around 20.2 years. The life expectancy in Zimbabwe is 58. The female fertility rate in Zimbabwe is 4.3. Around 7% of Zimbabwe's population is obese. Ethnic diversity is diverse according to a fractionation scale, which for Zimbabwe is 0.3874. Details of the language, religion, age, gender distribution and advancement of the people of Zimbabwe can be found in the sections below, as well as the section on education in the country.

Population
In Zimbabwe, the population density is 33 people per square kilometer (86 per square mile). Based on these statistics, this country is considered sparsely populated. The total population of Zimbabwe is 16,913,261 people. Zimbabwe has approximately 355,000 foreign immigrants. Immigrants in Zimbabwe account for 0.2 percent of the total number of immigrants worldwide. Immigrants in Zimbabwe account for 2.6 percent of the total number of immigrants worldwide. The ethnic diversity of Zimbabwe is diverse 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 Zimbabwe is 0.3874. This means that there is some diversity in Zimbabwe, 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 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 Zimbabwe statistics on mean age and gender distribution at different ages.

Age
The average age is around 20.2 years. The average age of men is 19.9, the average age of women is 20.4.

Gender
The sex ratio, or number of males per female (estimated at birth), is 1.03. It can be further broken down into the following categories: sex ratio below 15 - 1.02; sex ratio from 15 to 64 - 0.81; sex ratio over 64 - 0.78; 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 Zimbabwe is Christianity, whose adherents make up 87% 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 Zimbabwe are Islam, folk religions, Judaism. Zimbabwe's religious diversity is quite diverse according to a fractionation scale based on the number of religions in Zimbabwe. The index of religious fractionation in Zimbabwe is 0.7363. This score means that there are several major religions in Zimbabwe, evenly distributed.