SCOTLAND · PEOPLE, PLACES & SERVICES
Scotland’s population: estimates and projections
Explore population by council and NHS health board, with age and sex breakdowns and 2022-based projections.
Mid-2025 estimates describe the usually resident population. Projections are a separate 2022-based scenario through 2047. Councils and health boards are alternative geographies of the same population; their totals must not be added. Percentages use the whole area population as denominator and may differ slightly through rounding.
Local councils (32)
- Aberdeen City
- Aberdeenshire
- Angus
- Argyll and Bute
- City of Edinburgh
- Clackmannanshire
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Dundee City
- East Ayrshire
- East Dunbartonshire
- East Lothian
- East Renfrewshire
- Falkirk
- Fife
- Glasgow City
- Highland
- Inverclyde
- Midlothian
- Moray
- Na h-Eileanan Siar
- North Ayrshire
- North Lanarkshire
- Orkney Islands
- Perth and Kinross
- Renfrewshire
- Scottish Borders
- Shetland Islands
- South Ayrshire
- South Lanarkshire
- Stirling
- West Dunbartonshire
- West Lothian