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Politicians and academics also noted that in the first years of the 21st century the previous trend of a net migration away from Scotland had reversed with significant immigration to Scotland from the rest of the United Kingdom. Between 2001 and 2011 Scotland's population grew by 5% (233,000), the fastest rate of growth for at least 100 years. [62]
Aberdeen has a higher proportion of students of 11.5%, higher than the national average of 7%. [135] The University of Aberdeen began as King's College, Aberdeen, which was founded in 1495 [134] by William Elphinstone (1431–1514), Bishop of Aberdeen and Chancellor of Scotland.
Scottish people or Scots (Scots: Scots fowk; Scottish Gaelic: Albannaich) are an ethnic group and nation native to Scotland.Historically, they emerged in the early Middle Ages from an amalgamation of two Celtic peoples, the Picts and Gaels, who founded the Kingdom of Scotland (or Alba) in the 9th century.
The group represented around 0.7% of Scotland's population, compared to 3.0% of the overall UK population. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] The 2001 census recorded 1,778 Black Caribbean people, 5,118 Black African people and 1,129 people in the Black Scottish or Other Black category, for a total of 8,025 Black people in Scotland.
Ethnic demography of Scotland 1981–2011. In the 2011 Scottish census conducted by the Scottish Government, Scotland's population was recorded to be 96% White, a 2% decrease from the previous census held in 2001. 91.8% of Scotland's population claimed to be White Scottish or White: Other British, whilst 4.2% were recorded as Polish, Irish, Gypsy/Traveller or ‘White: Other’.
Aberdeenshire's economy is closely linked to Aberdeen City's (GDP £7,906M), and in 2011, the region as a whole was calculated to contribute 16.8% of Scotland's GDP. Between 2012 and 2014, the combined Aberdeenshire and Aberdeen City economic forecast GDP growth rate is 8.6%, the highest growth rate of any local council area in the UK and above ...
The population density of Aberdeen is 2,819 persons per square mile (1,088 persons/km 2). [7] Data from the Aberdeen specific locality of the 2001 UK census shows that the demographics include a median male age of 35 and female age of 38 which are younger than Scotland's average and a 49% to 51% male to female ratio. [5]
Stone houses at Knap of Howar, evidence of the beginnings of demographic growth, c. 3500 BCE. At times during the last interglacial period (130,000– 70,000 BC) Europe had a climate warmer than today's, and early humans may have made their way to what is now Scotland, though archaeologists have found no traces of this.