High Level Summary of Statistics Trends

This sections gives a brief overview of our key statistics trends. You can also get more detailed information from our Statistics by Theme page or from the Registrar General's Annual Review.

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Featured High Level Trend

There have been small increases in Scotland’s population over each of the last 15 years largely due to record levels of net in-migration. Over this recent period natural change (births minus deaths) has had in comparison a relatively small impact on Scotland’s total population. Read more on our featured trend.

Scotland's Population

• Recent Trends (Updated April 2016)
• Age Structure (Updated April 2016)
• Changes within Scotland (Updated April 2016)
• Projected Population (Updated April 2016)
• Population Growth and Healthy Life Expectancy (Updated April 2016)

Migration

• Trends in Migration (Updated April 2016)
• Origin and Destination of Migrants (Updated April 2016)
• Age and Sex of Migrants (Updated April 2016)
• Migration and the Distribution of People in Scotland (Updated April 2016)
• Improvements in Migration Statistics (Updated April 2016)

Births

• Births in Scotland (Updated August 2016)
• Births - Variation within Scotland (Updated August 2016)
• Births European Comparison (Updated August 2016)

Deaths

• Deaths in Scotland (Updated August 2016)
• Deaths - Variation within Scotland (Updated August 2016)
• Life Expectancy in Scotland (Updated August 2016)
• Life Expectancy UK and European Comparison (Updated August 2016)

Households

• Households and Housing (Updated June 2016)
• Household Projections (Updated January 2017) 

Enquiries

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