Some interesting information about our population. I’m told that in June 2016 Scotland’s population is estimated to have risen to 5,404,700. This was an increase of 31,700 (0.6%) on the previous year and is Scotland’s highest-ever recorded population.
Aberdeenshire’s population is estimated to have reached 262,190 in June 2016, an increase of 230 people (0.09%) over the year. Its population growth is due to positive natural change outweighing negative net migration, a unique position amongst Scottish local authorities this year.
Although Aberdeenshire’s growth rate was positive between 2015 and 2016, it has been declining for the last three years, moving from 1.1% between 2013 and 2014 to 0.5% between 2014 and 2015, and now to 0.09%.
Over a 10-year period, Aberdeenshire’s population grew by 8.7%, the fifth highest population growth rate of all Scottish local authorities, and Aberdeen’s by 9.6%, the fourth highest growth rate. Lastly, the city’s population fell to 229,840 in 2016, a decrease of 510 people (0.22%).
The statistics come from a National Records of Scotland report.