Scotland's Population 2020 - The Registrar General's Annual Review of Demographic Trends

Correction - 1 October 2021

Last update: 31 August 2021
Next update: August 2022
Frequency: Annual

	Report		Data (Excel    CSV)
	News Release		Infographic (2018)

Key Points:

• The ‘Registrar General’s Annual Review of Demographic Trends’ (RGAR) brings together a range of NRS data to provide new insights and highlight key trends. 
• This year’s RGAR highlights the impact of deprivation and COVID-19 on mortality in Scotland.
• The report shows the death rate from all causes in the most deprived areas of Scotland was 1.9 times the death rate in the least deprived areas. 
• The death rates for drug-related deaths (18.4 times as large), alcohol-specific deaths (4.3 times as large), suicides (3.0 times as large) and COVID-19 (2.4 times as large) were all notably higher in the most deprived areas. 
• People in more deprived areas can also expect far fewer years in good health. There is a 20+ year gap in healthy life expectancy between people in the least and most deprived areas.
• Data from the first nine months of the pandemic shows how deaths from various causes compare to previous years.

Correction - 1 October 2021
An error was noticed in the monthly deaths in both the probable suicide and alcohol specific death publications. Deaths for these measures were based on month of occurrence within the 2020 registration year, rather than month of registration. This has been corrected.

Contact Us

Please contact our Statistics Customer Services if you need any further information.
E-mail: [email protected]