Statistics & Data

Official Statistics
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Official Statistics

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Coronavirus (COVID-19) deaths

Summaries

Scotland's Population
An overview of our statistics on the population of Scotland.

Council Area Profiles
All our statistics for your council area in one place.

Infographics and interactive visualisations

Names

Baby Names
Surnames

Births, Deaths, and Marriages

Collectively these statistics are called vital events and include: births, deaths, marriages, adoptions, stillbirths, and civil partnerships. The reference tables are a good place to start.

Regular data tables
Reference Tables (annual)
Births, Deaths and Other Vital Events (quarterly)
Weekly Births
Weekly Deaths
Monthly Births
Monthly mortality analysis, Scotland

Time series
Births
Deaths
Marriages and Civil Partnerships

Cause of death
Accidental
Age-standardised Death Rates
Alcohol
Avoidable mortality
Clostridium Difficile (C.diff)
Dementia and Alzheimer's
Drug Related
Hypothermia
MRSA
Probable Suicides
Volatile Substance Abuse and Helium
Winter Mortality

Population

Estimates (national and sub-national)
Scotland, council, and health board area

Time Series
National and sub-national data from 1855 onwards

Data Zone
Small areas of around 500 to 1,000 people

Electoral Ward

NUTS (Nomenclature of Units for Territorial Statistics)
Territories used to make regional statistics for the EU

Scottish Parliamentary Constituency

UK Parliamentary Constituency

Estimates (other area or sub-group)
Country of Birth and Nationality

SIMD (Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation)

Settlements and Localities
A settlement is a set of adjacent urban postcodes with more than 500 people in total. Bigger settlements are split into localities.

Urban Rural Classification

Very Old (age 90+) and Centenarians

Projections
National
Sub-National