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The demography of Edinburgh, the capital city and second largest city of Scotland, is analysed by the National Records of Scotland. [1] The population of the council area of Edinburgh was 514,990 in 2022.
Edinburgh has a high proportion of young adults, with 19.5% of the population in their 20s (exceeded only by Aberdeen) and 15.2% in their 30s which is the highest in Scotland. The proportion of Edinburgh's population born in the UK fell from 92% to 84% between 2001 and 2011, while the proportion of White Scottish-born fell from 78% to 70%.
[a] [2] The 52 localities with a population over 15,000 are listed below. [1] Glasgow is the most populous locality in Scotland, and also the largest city; Greater Glasgow is the largest settlement. Paisley is the fifth most populous locality in Scotland, and the largest town by population. Stirling has the smallest population of Scotland's cities.
Scotland's population grew most years between the first census in 1855 up to around 5.2 million in 1974. [56] However, from 1974 to 2000 there was a natural decrease in population, with both an excess of deaths over births and of emigration over immigration - particularly to the rest of the United Kingdom .
2.5 Demographics of Edinburgh. 3 Government and politics of Edinburgh. ... capital of Scotland; Population of Edinburgh: 507,170; Area of Edinburgh: 264 km 2 (102 sq mi)
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The first national census was conducted in 1755, and showed the population of Scotland as 1,265,380. By then four towns had populations of over 10,000, with the capital, Edinburgh, the largest with 57,000 inhabitants. Overall the population of Scotland grew rapidly in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
The city is located in southeast Scotland and is bounded to the north by the Firth of Forth estuary and to the south by the Pentland Hills. Edinburgh had a population of 506,520 in mid-2020, making it the second-most populous city in Scotland and the seventh-most populous in the United Kingdom.