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1911 Census of Scotland, Population, Ages and Conjugal Condition, Occupations, Birthplaces, Housing, Gaelic-speaking, Table 8 : " Increase or Decease of Population in the Counties since 1801".
COUNTIES. | POPULATION 1911. | POPULATION 1801. | Difference. | Percentage of Total Increase. |
---|---|---|---|---|
SCOTLAND | 4,760,904 | 1,608,420 | 3,152,484 | 100.000 |
Aberdeen | 312,177 | 121,065 | 191,112 | 6.062 |
Argyll | 70,902 | 81,277 | -10,375 | -0.329 |
Ayr | 268,337 | 84,207 | 184,130 | 5.841 |
Banff | 61,402 | 37,216 | 24,186 | 0.767 |
Berwick | 29,643 | 30,206 | -563 | -0.018 |
Bute | 18,186 | 11,791 | 6,395 | 0.203 |
Caithness | 32,010 | 22,609 | 9,401 | 0.298 |
Clackmannan | 31,121 | 10,858 | 20,263 | 0.643 |
Dumbarton | 139,831 | 20,710 | 119,121 | 3.779 |
Dumfries | 72,825 | 54,597 | 18,228 | 0.578 |
Edinburgh | 507,666 | 122,597 | 385,069 | 12.215 |
Elgin (or Moray) | 43,427 | 27,760 | 15,667 | 0.497 |
Fife | 267,739 | 93,743 | 173,996 | 5.519 |
Forfar | 281,417 | 99,053 | 182,364 | 5.785 |
Haddington | 43,254 | 29,986 | 13,268 | 0.421 |
Inverness | 87,272 | 72,672 | 14,600 | 0.463 |
Kincardine | 41,008 | 26,349 | 14,659 | 0.465 |
Kinross | 7,527 | 6,725 | 802 | 0.025 |
Kirkcudbright | 38,367 | 29,211 | 9,156 | 0.290 |
Lanark | 1,447,034 | 147,692 | 1,299,342 | 41.216 |
Linlithgow | 80,155 | 17,844 | 62,311 | 1.977 |
Nairn | 9,319 | 8,322 | 997 | 0.032 |
Orkney | 25,897 | 24,445 | 1,452 | 0.046 |
Peebles | 15,258 | 8,735 | 6,523 | 0.207 |
Perth | 124,342 | 125,583 | -1,241 | -0.039 |
Renfrew | 314,552 | 78,501 | 236,051 | 7.488 |
Ross and Cromarty | 77,364 | 56,318 | 21,046 | 0.668 |
Roxburgh | 47,192 | 33,721 | 13,471 | 0.427 |
Selkirk | 24,601 | 5,388 | 19,213 | 0.609 |
Shetland | 27,911 | 22,379 | 5,532 | 0.175 |
Stirling | 160,991 | 50,825 | 110,166 | 3.495 |
Sutherland | 20,179 | 23,117 | -2,938 | -0.093 |
Wigtown | 31,998 | 22,918 | 9,080 | 0.288 |