More information about our births data is available within our ‘Adoptions, Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships in Scotland, 2025’ report, our deaths background information page, and within the notes in the ‘Notes’ tab within the downloadable workbook.
This time series data will be useful for users who would like the same data for a series of different years to understand trends over time.
The tables available in the workbook below are:
Table_DT01 : Deaths by sex, Scotland, 1855 to 2025
Table_DT02 : Stillbirths by sex; Scotland, 1939 to 2025
Table_DT03 : Deaths by sex and single year of age, Scotland, 1974 to 2025
Table_DT04a: Deaths by sex and 5 year age groups, Scotland, 1901 to 2025
Table_DT04b: Deaths by sex and broad age groups, Scotland, 1901 to 2025
Table_DT05 : Deaths by sex, year and council area, 1991 to 2025
Table_DT06 : Deaths by sex, year and post-April 2014 NHS Board area, 1991 to 2025
Table_DT07 : Deaths by age group, year and council area, 1991 to 2025
Table_DT08 : Deaths by age group, year and post-April 2014 NHS Board area, 1991 to 2025
Table_DT09 : Death rates by council area, 1991 to 2025
Table_DT10 : Death rates by post-April 2014 NHS Board area, 1991 to 2025
Table_DT11 : Standardised mortality ratios for deaths from all causes and from selected specific causes by council area, 2000 to 2025
Table_DT12 : Standardised mortality ratios for deaths from all causes and from selected specific causes by post-April 2014 NHS Board area, 2000 to 2025
Table_DT13 : Deaths by sex, age group and council area, 1997 to 2025