§ Mr. Rossasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will tabulate, for those counties in respect of which he has received a report from the Registrar 51W General, the population in 1951, the population in 1961, the increase or decrease of population between those years the population of school age in 1951 and 1961, the population over 60 years of
Cities and Counties Population (all ages) Increase or decrease 1951–1961 Population aged 5–14 Population aged 60 and over Deaths 1951–1961 Births 1951–1961 1951 1961 1951 1961 1951 1961 Cities Aberdeen 182,783 185,390 + 2,607 25,863 29,951 26,232 30,638 21,448 32,148 Dundee 177,340 182,978 + 5,638 26,128 30,901 26,429 29,213 21,889 33,643 Edinburgh 466,943 468,361 + 1,418 62,149 69,211 75,726 82,681 60,275 76,009 Glasgow 1,089,767 1,055,017 - 34,750 170,999 175,617 140,713 150,948 132,297 215,822 Counties Aberdeen 144,746 136,393 - 8,353 24,349 23,825 21,834 23,159 16,102 24,957 Angus 97,536 95,421 - 2,115 14,044 15,154 16,756 18,123 12,196 15,448 Argyll 63,361 59,390 - 3,971 9,047 8,958 12,175 13,197 9,329 8,918 Ayr 321,237 342,822 + 21,585 50,780 57,758 44,458 52,346 38,649 61,335 Banff 50,148 46,454 - 3,694 8,827 8,330 8,189 8,297 6,064 8,602 Berwick 25,068 22,437 - 2,631 3,541 3,532 4,481 4,466 3,395 3,184 Bute 19,283 15,170 - 4,113 2,537 1,994 4,130 4,522 2,895 2,246 Caithness 22,710 27,370 + 4,660 3,729 4,717 3,853 3,967 3,112 4,686 Clackmannan 37,532 41,394 + 3,862 5,961 7,700 5,013 5,725 4,360 7,739 Dumfries 85,660 88,440 + 2,780 12,883 14,947 13,191 14,468 10,429 15,337 Dunbarton 164,269 184,559 + 20,290 25,132 32,513 22,161 26,047 19,173 34,769 East Lothian 52,258 52,677 + 419 8,378 9,034 7,503 8,742 5,837 9,089 Fife 306,778 320,692 + 13,914 45,927 55,464 42,947 49,159 35,253 58,422 Inverness 84,930 83,480 - 1,450 12,561 13,715 14,409 15,608 10,528 14,724 Kincardine 27,882 25,564 - 2,318 4,472 4,345 4,614 4,820 3,252 4,362 Kinross 7,418 6,702 - 716 1,171 1,092 1,265 1,258 922 1,092 Kirkcudbright 30,725 28,870 - 1,855 4,869 4,752 5,067 5,351 3,860 5,212 Lanark 524,596 571,407 + 46,811 89,939 103,111 64,320 73,795 59,904 110,322 Midlothian 98,792 111,968 + 13,176 15,596 20,454 12,854 14,864 11,092 21,278 Moray 48,218 49,170 + 952 7,017 8,509 6,905 7,506 5,303 9,841 Nairn 8,719 8,423 - 296 1,385 1,419 1,591 1,695 1,121 1,411 Orkney 21,255 18,747 - 2,508 3,296 2,986 4,078 3,717 2,965 3,146 Peebles 15,232 14,156 - 1,076 2,240 2,310 2,924 3,098 2,043 2,155 Perth 128,029 127,056 - 973 17,799 20,450 22,523 24,294 16,342 20,344 Renfrew 324,660 338,872 + 14,212 51,726 58,162 44,578 50,049 38,761 63,068 Ross and Cromarty 60,508 57,642 - 2,866 9,266 9,918 11,785 11,918 8,352 9,774 Roxburgh 45,557 43,183 - 2,374 6,164 6,559 8,550 8,742 6,302 6,815 Selkirk 21,729 21,052 - 677 2,538 3,078 4,251 4,457 3,131 3,203 Stirling 187,527 194,876 + 7,349 28,956 32,858 24,199 27,755 21,014 34,249 Sutherland 13,670 13,507 - 163 1,999 2,239 2,838 2,819 2,034 2,298 West Lothian 88,577 92,768 + 4,191 15,004 16,347 10,458 12,529 9,013 17,811 Wigtown 31,620 29,124 - 2,496 5,221 5,201 4,492 4,576 3,810 5,879 Zetland 19,352 17,812 - 1,540 2,780 2,754 4,097 3,896 2,886 2,776 Total (Scotland) 5,096,415 5,179,344 + 82,929 784,273 869,862 731,589 808,445 615,338 952,114