Demografie o Scotland

The Demography o Scotland is a airticle anent the population o Scotland: the amoont o fowk that bides in Scotland, whit pairt thay bide, whaur thay come fae amang ither things.

The Amoont o fowk that bides in Scotland

Thare 5,295,000 fowk in Scotland, sae faur as the 2011 census says.

Year	Population
1500	500,000
1600	800,000
1707	1,000,000
1755	1,265,380
1801	1,608,420
1811	1,805,864
1821	2,091,521
1831	2,364,386
1841	2,620,184
1851	2,888,742
1861	3,062,294
1871	3,360,018
1881	3,735,578
1891	4,025,647
1901	4,472,103
1911	4,760,904
1921	4,882,407
1931	4,842,989
1939a	5,006,700
1951	5,095,969
1961b	5,179,000
1971	5,229,000
1981	5,035,000
1991c	5,083,000
2001	5,062,000
2011	5,295,000

Whit pairt o Scotland fowk bide

Scotland Council Area Population Estimates
(2001 & 2011)^[1]

Local Council Area	Population (2001)	Population (2011)	% change (2001–11)
Aberdeen City (Aiberdeen)	212,125	222,800	5.0
Aberdeenshire	226,871	253,000	11.5
Angus	108,400	116,000	7.0
Argyll and Bute	91,306	88,200	−3.4
Clackmannanshire	48,077	51,400	7.0
Dumfries and Galloway	147,765	151,300	2.4
Dundee City (Dundee)	145,663	147,300	1.1
East Ayrshire	120,235	122,700	2.1
East Dunbartonshire	108,243	105,000	−3.0
East Lothian	90,088	99,700	10.7
East Renfrewshire	89,311	90,600	1.4
Edinburgh !City of Edinburgh (Embra)	448,624	476,600	6.2
Eilean Siar	26,502	27,700	4.5
Falkirk	145,191	156,000	7.4
Fife	349,429	365,200	4.5
Glasgow City (Glesga)	577,869	593,200	2.7
Highland	208,914	232,100	11.1
Inverclyde	84,203	81,500	−3.2
Midlothian	80,941	83,200	2.8
Moray	86,940	93,300	7.3
North Ayrshire	135,817	138,200	1.7
North Lanarkshire	321,067	337,800	5.2
Orkney	19,245	21,400	10.9
Perth and Kinross	134,949	146,700	8.7
Renfrewshire	172,867	174,900	1.2
Scottish Borders	106,764	113,900	6.7
Shetland	21,988	23,200	5.3
South Ayrshire	112,097	112,800	0.6
South Lanarkshire	302,216	313,800	3.8
Stirling (Stirling)	86,212	90,200	4.7
West Dunbartonshire	93,378	90,700	−2.8
West Lothian	158,714	175,100	10.3

Whaur fowk in Scotland is fae

Country of birth	2001[2]		2011[3]
	Nummer	%	Nummer	%
Scotland	4,410,400	87.13%	4,411,884	83.32%
England	408,948	8.08%	459,486	8.68%
Wales	16,623	0.33%	17,381	0.33%
Northren Ireland	33,528	0.66%	36,655	0.69%
Unitit Kinrick UK pairt no specifeed	941	0.02%
Ireland	21,774	0.43%	22,952	0.43%
Ither Kintras that is Member o the EU	41,836	0.83%
Ither Kintras Member o the EU (jyned afore 2001)			59,031	1.11%
Ither Kintras Member o the EU (jyned efter 2001)			78,254	1.48%
Ither Kintras	127,926	2.53%	209,760	3.96%
Total	5,062,011	100.00%	5,295,403	100.00%

Ethnicity

Ethnic Group	2001[4]		2011[5]
	Number	%	Number	%
White: Scots	4,459,071	88.09%	4,445,678	83.95%
White: Ither Breetish	373,685	7.38%	417,109	7.88%
White: Erse	49,428	0.98%	54,090	1.02%
White: Gypsy/Traiveller[note 1]			4,212	0.08%
White: Pols[note 2]			61,201	1.16%
White: Ither	78,150	1.54%	102,117	1.93%
White: Tot	4,960,334	97.99%	5,084,407	96.02%
Asian, Asian Scottish or Asian British: Indian	15,037	0.30%	32,706	0.62%
Asian, Asian Scottish or Asian British: Pakistani	31,793	0.63%	49,381	0.93%
Asian, Asian Scottish or Asian British: Bangladeshi	1,981	0.04%	3,788	0.07%
Asian, Asian Scottish or Asian British: Chinese	16,310	0.32%	33,706	0.64%
Asian, Asian Scottish or Asian Breetish: Asian Other	6,196	0.12%	21,097	0.40%
Asie, Asie Scots or Asie Breetish: Tot	71,317	1.41%	140,678	2.66%
Black, Black Scots or Black Breetish[note 3]	6,247	0.12%
African: African, African Scots or African Breetish			29,186	0.55%
African: Ither African			452	0.01%
African: Tot			29,638	0.56%
Caribbean			3,430	0.06%
Black			2,380	0.04%
Caribbean or Black: Ither			730	0.01%
Caribbean or Black: Total			6,540	0.12%
Mixed or multiple ethnic groups: Tot	12,764	0.25%	19,815	0.37%
Ither: Arab[note 4]			9,366	0.18%
Ither: Ony ither ethnic group	9,571	0.19%	4,959	0.09%
Ither: Tot	9,571	0.19%	14,325	0.27%
Tot	5,062,011	100.00%	5,295,403	100.00%

1. New category created for the 2011 census
2. New category created for the 2011 census
3. Category restructured for the 2011 census
4. New category created for the 2011 census

Leids

Ability	Scots		Scottish Gaelic
	Usual residents aged 3+	Proportion	Usual residents aged 3+	Proportion
Unnerstauns but disna speak, read or write	267,412	5.22%	23,357	0.46%
Speaks, reads an writes	1,225,622	23.95%	32,191	0.63%
Spiks but disna read or write	179,295	3.50%	18,966	0.37%
Spiks an reads but disna write	132,709	2.59%	6,218	0.12%
Reads but disna spik or write	107,025	2.09%	4,646	0.09%
Ither combination o airts	17,381	0.34%	1,678	0.03%
Nae airts	3,188,779	62.30%	5,031,167	98.30%
Tot	5,118,223	100.00%	5,118,223	100.00%
Can spik	1,541,693	30.12%	57,602	1.13%
Haes some ability	1,929,444	37.70%	87,056	1.70%

Distribution o thaim that stated they could spik a local leid in the 2011 census.

• 
  Scots
• 
  Scottish Gaelic

Ither leids in Scotland include Polish, that is spaken by naur ae percent o the kintra.

Releegion

Current religion	2001[6]		2011[7]
	Nummer	%	Nummer	%
Kirk o Scotland	2,146,251	42.4	1,717,871	32.4
Roman Catholic	803,732	15.9	841,053	15.9
Other Christian	344,562	6.8	291,275	5.5
Total Christian	3,294,545	65.1	2,850,199	53.8
Islam	42,557	0.8	76,737	1.4
Hinduism	5,564	0.1	16,379	0.3
Buddhism	6,830	0.1	12,795	0.2
Sikhism	6,572	0.1	9,055	0.2
Judaism	6,448	0.1	5,887	0.1
Ither releegion	26,974	0.5	15,196	0.3
Nae releegion	1,394,460	27.6	1,941,116	36.7
Releegion no gien	278,061	5.5	368,039	7.0
Nae releegion/No gien tot	1,672,521	33.0	2,309,155	43.6
Total population	5,062,011	100.0	5,295,403	100.0