See soorce fer 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.


{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Population
|-
! 1500
| style="text-align:right;" | 500,000
|-
! 1600
| style="text-align:right;" | 800,000
|-
! 1707
| style="text-align:right;" | 1,000,000
|-
! 1755
| style="text-align:right;" | 1,265,380
|-
! 1801
| style="text-align:right;" | 1,608,420
|-
! 1811
| style="text-align:right;" | 1,805,864
|-
! 1821
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,091,521
|-
! 1831
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,364,386
|-
! 1841
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,620,184
|-
! 1851
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,888,742
|-
! 1861
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,062,294
|-
! 1871
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,360,018
|-
! 1881
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,735,578
|-
! 1891
| style="text-align:right;" | 4,025,647
|-
! 1901
| style="text-align:right;" | 4,472,103
|-
! 1911
| style="text-align:right;" | 4,760,904
|-
! 1921
| style="text-align:right;" | 4,882,407
|-
! 1931
| style="text-align:right;" | 4,842,989
|-
! 1939<sup>a</sup>
| style="text-align:right;" | 5,006,700
|-
! 1951
| style="text-align:right;" | 5,095,969
|-
! 1961<sup>b</sup>
| style="text-align:right;" | 5,179,000
|-
! 1971
| style="text-align:right;" | 5,229,000
|-
! 1981
| style="text-align:right;" | 5,035,000
|-
! 1991<sup>c</sup>
| style="text-align:right;" | 5,083,000
|-
! 2001
| style="text-align:right;" | 5,062,000
|-
! 2011
| style="text-align:right;" | 5,295,000
|}

==Whit pairt o Scotland fowk bide==

{|class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:right"
|+ Scotland Council Area Population Estimates<br>(2001 & 2011)<ref name="scotlandscensus.gov.uk">http://www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk/documents/censusresults/release1b/rel1bsb.pdf 2011 Census: First Results on Population and Household Estimates for Scotland Census day usually resident population by council area, 2001 and 2011;  ], Accessed 22 March 2013</ref>
|-
! Local Council Area !! Population<br>(2001) !!  Population<br>(2011) !! % change<br>(2001&ndash;11)
|-
| style="text-align:left"|[[Aberdeen City Council|Aberdeen City]] ([[Aiberdeen]]) || 212,125 || 222,800 || 5.0
|-
| style="text-align:left"|[[Aberdeenshire]] || 226,871 || 253,000 || 11.5
|-
| style="text-align:left"|[[Angus]] || 108,400 || 116,000 || 7.0
|-
| style="text-align:left"|[[Argyll and Bute]] || 91,306 || 88,200 || &minus;3.4
|-
| style="text-align:left"|[[Clackmannanshire]] || 48,077 || 51,400 || 7.0
|-
| style="text-align:left"|[[Dumfries and Galloway]] || 147,765 || 151,300 || 2.4
|-
| style="text-align:left"|[[Politics of Dundee|Dundee City]] ([[Dundee]]) || 145,663 || 147,300 || 1.1
|-
| style="text-align:left"|[[East Ayrshire]] || 120,235 || 122,700 || 2.1
|-
| style="text-align:left"|[[East Dunbartonshire]] || 108,243 || 105,000 || &minus;3.0
|-
| style="text-align:left"|[[East Lothian]] || 90,088 || 99,700 || 10.7
|-
| style="text-align:left"|[[East Renfrewshire]] || 89,311 || 90,600 || 1.4
|-
| style="text-align:left"|{{Sort|Edinburgh|[[Politics of the City of Edinburgh council area|City of Edinburgh]]}} ([[Embra]]) ||448,624 || 476,600 || 6.2
|-
| style="text-align:left"|[[Eilean Siar]] || 26,502 || 27,700 || 4.5
|-
| style="text-align:left"|[[Falkirk]] || 145,191 || 156,000 || 7.4
|-
| style="text-align:left"|[[Fife]] || 349,429 || 365,200 || 4.5
|-
| style="text-align:left"|[[Politics of Glasgow|Glasgow City]] ([[Glesga]]) || 577,869 || 593,200 || 2.7
|-
| style="text-align:left"|[[Highlands of Scotland|Highland]] || 208,914 || 232,100 || 11.1
|-
| style="text-align:left"|[[Inverclyde]] || 84,203 || 81,500 || &minus;3.2
|-
| style="text-align:left"|[[Midlothian]] || 80,941 || 83,200 || 2.8
|-
| style="text-align:left"|[[Moray]] || 86,940 || 93,300 || 7.3
|-
| style="text-align:left"|[[North Ayrshire]] || 135,817 || 138,200 || 1.7
|-
| style="text-align:left"|[[North Lanarkshire]] || 321,067 || 337,800 || 5.2
|-
| style="text-align:left"|[[Orkney]] || 19,245 || 21,400 || 10.9
|-
| style="text-align:left"|[[Perth and Kinross]] || 134,949 || 146,700 || 8.7
|-
| style="text-align:left"|[[Renfrewshire]] || 172,867 || 174,900 || 1.2
|-
| style="text-align:left"|[[Scottish Borders]] || 106,764 || 113,900 || 6.7
|-
| style="text-align:left"|[[Shetland]] || 21,988 || 23,200 || 5.3
|-
| style="text-align:left"|[[South Ayrshire]] || 112,097 || 112,800 || 0.6
|-
| style="text-align:left"|[[South Lanarkshire]] || 302,216 || 313,800 || 3.8
|-
| style="text-align:left"|[[Stirling (cooncil area)|Stirling]] ([[Stirling]]) || 86,212 || 90,200 || 4.7
|-
| style="text-align:left"|[[West Dunbartonshire]] || 93,378 || 90,700 || &minus;2.8
|-
| style="text-align:left"|[[West Lothian]] || 158,714 || 175,100 || 10.3
|}

==Whaur fowk in Scotland is fae==

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:right"
|-
!rowspan="2"|Country of birth
!colspan="2"|2001<ref>[http://www.scrol.gov.uk/scrol/analyser/analyser?actionName=choose-topic-and-table 2001 Census for Scotland scrol analyser] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140924064512/http://www.scrol.gov.uk/scrol/analyser/analyser?actionName=choose-topic-and-table |date=2014-09-24 }}, Accessed 6 September 2014</ref>||colspan="2"|2011<ref>[http://www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk/ods-web/standard-outputs.html 2011 Census for Scotland Standard Outputs], Accessed 5 September 2014</ref>
|-
!Nummer
!%
!Nummer
!%
|-
| {{flag|Scotland}}
| 4,410,400
| 87.13%
| 4,411,884
| 83.32%
|-
| {{flag|England}}
| 408,948
| 8.08%
| 459,486
| 8.68%
|-
| {{flag|Wales}}
| 16,623
| 0.33%
| 17,381
| 0.33%
|-
| {{flag|Northren Ireland}}
| 33,528
| 0.66%
| 36,655
| 0.69%
|-
| {{flag|Unitit Kinrick}} UK pairt no specifeed
| 941
| 0.02%
|  
|  
|-
| {{flag|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%
|-
| style="text-align:left" | '''Total'''
| '''5,062,011'''
| '''100.00%'''
| '''5,295,403'''
| '''100.00%'''
|-
|}

==Ethnicity==

{|class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:right"
|-
!rowspan="2"|Ethnic Group
!colspan="2"|2001<ref>{{cite web|title=Analysis of Ethnicity in the 2001 Census - Summary Report |url=http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2004/02/18876/32939|accessdate=6 September 2014}}</ref>
!colspan="2"|2011<ref>{{cite web|title=Scotland's Census 2011 - Standard Outputs |url=http://www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk/ods-web/standard-outputs.html|accessdate=6 September 2014}}</ref>
|-
!Number
!%
!Number
!%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | White: [[Scots fowk|Scots]] || 4,459,071 || 88.09% || 4,445,678 || 83.95%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | White: [[White Breetish|Ither Breetish]] || 373,685 || 7.38% || 417,109 || 7.88%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | White: [[Erse in Scotland|Erse]] || 49,428 || 0.98% || 54,090 || 1.02%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | White: [[Gypsy]]/[[Erse Traiveller|Traiveller]]<ref group="note">New category created for the 2011 census</ref> ||  ||  || 4,212 || 0.08%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | White: [[Poles in Scotland|Pols]]<ref group="note">New category created for the 2011 census</ref> ||  ||  || 61,201 || 1.16%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | White: Ither || 78,150 || 1.54% || 102,117 || 1.93%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | '''[[White fowk|White]]: Tot''' || '''4,960,334''' || '''97.99%''' || '''5,084,407''' || 
'''96.02%'''
|-
|style="text-align:left" | Asian, Asian Scottish or Asian British: [[Scots Indians|Indian]] || 15,037 || 0.30% || 32,706 || 0.62%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | Asian, Asian Scottish or Asian British: [[Scots Pakistanis|Pakistani]] || 31,793 || 0.63% || 49,381 || 0.93%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | Asian, Asian Scottish or Asian British: [[Scots Bangladeshis|Bangladeshi]] || 1,981 || 0.04% || 3,788 || 0.07%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | Asian, Asian Scottish or Asian British: [[Scots Cheenese|Chinese]]|| 16,310 || 0.32% || 33,706 || 0.64%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | Asian, Asian Scottish or Asian Breetish: [[Scots Asians|Asian Other]] || 6,196 || 0.12% || 21,097 || 0.40%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | '''[[Asies|Asie]], [[Asie-Scots|Asie Scots]] or [[Breetish Asie|Asie Breetish]]: Tot''' || '''71,317''' || '''1.41%''' || '''140,678''' || '''2.66%'''
|-
|style="text-align:left" | '''[[Black fowk|Black]], [[Black Scots fowk|Black Scots]] or [[Black Breetish]]<ref group="note">Category restructured for the 2011 census</ref>''' || '''6,247''' || '''0.12%''' || ''' ''' || ''' '''
|-
|style="text-align:left" | African: [[Black fowk in Scotland|African]], [[Black Scots fowk|African Scots]] or [[Black Breetish|African Breetish]] ||   ||   || 29,186 || 0.55%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | African: [[Black fowk in Scotland|Ither African]] ||   ||   || 452 || 0.01%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | '''[[Black fowk|African]]: Tot''' || ''' ''' || ''' ''' || '''29,638''' || 
'''0.56%'''
|-
|style="text-align:left" | [[African-Caribbean community in Scotland|Caribbean]] ||   ||   || 3,430 || 0.06%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | [[Black fowk in Scotland|Black]] ||   ||   || 2,380 || 0.04%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | Caribbean or Black: Ither ||   ||   || 730 || 0.01%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | '''[[African-Caribbean community in Scotland|Caribbean]] or [[Black fowk in Scotland|Black]]: Total''' || ''' ''' || ''' ''' || '''6,540''' || '''0.12%'''
|-
|style="text-align:left" | '''[[Mixed race fowk in Scotland|Mixed or multiple ethnic groups]]: Tot''' || '''12,764''' || '''0.25%''' || '''19,815''' || 
'''0.37%'''
|-
|style="text-align:left" | Ither: [[Arabs in Scotland|Arab]]<ref group="note">New category created for the 2011 census</ref> ||  ||  || 9,366 || 0.18%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | Ither: Ony ither ethnic group || 9,571 || 0.19% || 4,959 || 0.09%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | '''Ither: Tot''' || '''9,571''' || '''0.19%''' || '''14,325''' || 
'''0.27%'''
|-
|style="text-align:left" | '''Tot''' || '''5,062,011''' || '''100.00%''' || '''5,295,403''' || 
'''100.00%'''
|}

<references group="note"/>

==Leids==

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:right"
!rowspan=2|Ability
!colspan=2|Scots
!colspan=2|Scottish Gaelic
|-
!Usual residents aged 3+
!Proportion
!Usual residents aged 3+
!Proportion
|-
|style="text-align:left"| Unnerstauns but disna speak, read or write || 267,412 || 5.22% || 23,357 || 0.46% 
|-
|style="text-align:left"| Speaks, reads an writes || 1,225,622 || 23.95% || 32,191 || 0.63% 
|-
|style="text-align:left"| Spiks but disna read or write || 179,295 || 3.50% || 18,966 || 0.37% 
|-
|style="text-align:left"| Spiks an reads but disna write || 132,709 || 2.59% || 6,218 || 0.12% 
|-
|style="text-align:left"| Reads but disna spik or write || 107,025 || 2.09% || 4,646 || 0.09%
|-
|style="text-align:left"| Ither combination o airts || 17,381 || 0.34% || 1,678 || 0.03%
|-
|style="text-align:left"| Nae airts || 3,188,779 || 62.30% || 5,031,167 || 98.30%
|-
|style="text-align:left"| '''Tot''' || '''5,118,223''' || '''100.00%''' || '''5,118,223''' || '''100.00%'''
|-
|style="text-align:left"| Can spik || 1,541,693 || 30.12% || 57,602 || 1.13%
|-
|style="text-align:left"| Haes some ability || 1,929,444 || 37.70% || 87,056 || 1.70%
|}

{{Gallery
|title=Distribution o thaim that stated they could spik a local leid in the 2011 census.
|width=350 | height=350
|align=center
|File:Scots speakers in the 2011 census.png|Scots
|File:Scots Gaelic speakers in the 2011 census.png|Scottish Gaelic
}}

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

==Releegion==


{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!rowspan="2"|Current religion
!colspan="2"|2001<ref name="scotland2001">{{cite web |title=Analysis of Religion in the 2001 Census |publisher=The Scottish Government |date=17 May 2006 |url=http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2005/02/20757/53570 |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/5zFDvPpbp?url=http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2005/02/20757/53570 |archivedate=2011-06-06|access-date=2016-01-18 |url-status=live }}</ref>||colspan="2"|2011<ref name="2011census">{{cite web |url=http://www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk/documents/censusresults/release2a/scotland/KS209SCb.pdf |title=Scotland's Census 2011&nbsp;– Table KS209SCb |publisher=scotlandscensus.gov.uk |accessdate=26 September 2013 }}</ref>
|-
!Nummer
!%
!Nummer
!%
|-
|[[Kirk o Scotland]]||align=right|2,146,251||align=right|42.4||align=right|1,717,871||align=right|32.4
|-
|[[Roman Catholic]]||align=right|803,732||align=right|15.9||align=right|841,053||align=right|15.9
|-
|Other Christian||align=right|344,562||align=right|6.8||align=right|291,275||align=right|5.5
|-
|''Total Christian''||align=right|''3,294,545''||align=right|''65.1''||align=right|''2,850,199''||align=right|''53.8''
|-
|[[Islam]]||align=right|42,557||align=right|0.8||align=right|76,737||align=right|1.4
|-
|[[Hinduism]]||align=right|5,564||align=right|0.1||align=right|16,379||align=right|0.3
|-
|[[Buddhism]]||align=right|6,830||align=right|0.1||align=right|12,795||align=right|0.2
|-
|[[Sikhism]]||align=right|6,572||align=right|0.1||align=right|9,055||align=right|0.2
|-
|[[Judaism]]||align=right|6,448||align=right|0.1||align=right|5,887||align=right|0.1
|-
|Ither releegion||align=right|26,974||align=right|0.5||align=right|15,196||align=right|0.3
|-
|[[Irreligion|Nae releegion]]||align=right|1,394,460||align=right|27.6||align=right|1,941,116||align=right|36.7
|-
|Releegion no gien||align=right|278,061||align=right|5.5||align=right|368,039||align=right|7.0
|-
|''Nae releegion/No gien tot''||align=right|''1,672,521''||align=right|''33.0''||align=right|''2,309,155''||align=right|''43.6''
|-
|Total population||align=right|5,062,011||align=right|100.0||align=right|5,295,403||align=right|100.0
|}

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Scotland]]
[[Category:Human geografie]]