  To address the statistics of binary stars in the 8-Myr old Upper Scorpius
star formation region, we conducted speckle-interferometric survey of 614
association members more massive than 0.4 Msun (spectral types earlier than
M3V) based on the list of Luhman et al. (2018). We resolved 187 pairs, 55 of
those are new discoveries. Using also the published data and the Gaia DR2, a
catalog of 250 physical binaries is produced. We carefully estimated detection
limits for each target and studied binary statistics in the separation range
from 0.06" to 20" (9 to 2800 au), as well as clustering at larger separations.
The frequency of companions with mass ratios q>0.3 in this separation range is
0.33+-0.04 and 0.35+-0.04 for early M and solar-type stars, respectively,
larger by 1.62+-0.22 and 1.39+-0.18 times compared to field stars of similar
masses. The excess is produced mostly by pairs closer than 100 au. At
separations from 100 to 10^4 au, the separation distribution and companion
fraction resemble those of solar-type stars in the field. However, unlike in
the field, we see a relative deficit of equal-mass binaries at separations of
~500 au, compared to smaller and larger separations. The distribution of q
depends on the separation, with a preference of larger q and a larger fraction
of twins with q>0.95 at smaller separations. The binary population of Upper
Scorpius differs from binaries in the field in several ways and suggests that
binary statistics is not universal.
