Population density national records of scotland 2023 mid-year estimates - open data Edit

Population estimates are based on the 2022 Census and were updated by taking account of births, deaths and migration up to
30 June 2023. 

A quality assurance report for Scotland’s Census 2022 has been published in the Scotland’s Census website. Births and deaths are estimated using data from the civil registration system, which is considered to be virtually complete. Migration is more difficult to estimate because there is no comprehensive registration system in the UK, so the figures are estimated using the sources of data described. 

The estimated population of an area includes all those usually resident there, whatever their nationality. Students are treated
as being resident at their term-time address. Members of UK and non-UK armed forces stationed in Scotland are included in
the estimated population. UK forces stationed outside Scotland are excluded. Short-term international migrants are excluded.

Population estimates for Scotland are comparable with population estimates from the rest of the UK and most countries around the world.

Resources

• Web Page ARCGIS HUB DATASET (Details)
• Esri REST ARCGIS GEOSERVICE (Details)
• CSV CSV (Details)
• Shapefile ZIP (Details)
• GeoJSON GEOJSON (Details)
• KML KML (Details)
• File Geodatabase ZIP (Details)
• Feature Collection TXT (Details)
• Excel MS EXCEL (Details)
• GeoPackage GPKG (Details)
• SQLite Geodatabase GDB (Details)

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