page_title: Demography of Scotland
section_title: Historical population
hierarchical_section_title: Demography of Scotland / Historical population
caption_attribution_description: English: Mid-year estimates of Scotland's population from 1954 to 2014, data from National Records of Scotland.
context_page_description: The demography of Scotland includes all aspects of population, past and present, in the area that is now Scotland. Scotland has a population of 5,295,000 to 5,313,600, estimated in 5,424,800 for 2017. The population growth rate in 2011 was estimated as 0.6% per annum according to the 2011 GROS Annual Review.
  Covering an area of 78,782 square kilometres, Scotland has a population density of 67.2/km². Around 70% of the country's population live in the Central Belt —a region stretching in a northeast-southwest orientation between the major cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, and including the major settlements of Paisley, Stirling, Falkirk, Perth and Dundee- in the Central Lowlands. Other concentrations of population include the northeast coast of Scotland, principally the regions around the cities of Aberdeen and Inverness, and the west coast around the town of Ayr. The Highlands of Scotland and the island group of Eilean Siar have the lowest population densities at 9/km². Glasgow has the highest population density at 3,289/km².
caption: Evolution of the population of Scotland 1954-2014. Data from National Records of Scotland 2014.
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