List of Scottish council areas by population

This is a list of council areas of Scotland ordered by population.The populations of these Scottish council areas are mid-year estimates for 2010 from the Office for National Statistics.

Rank	Council area	Population
1	City of Glasgow	592,800
2	City of Edinburgh	486,100
3	Fife	365,000
4	North Lanarkshire	326,400
5	South Lanarkshire	311,900
6	Aberdeenshire	245,800
7	Highland	221,600
8	City of Aberdeen	217,100
9	West Lothian	172,100
10	Renfrewshire	170,300
11	Falkirk	153,300
12	Dumfries and Galloway	148,200
13	Perth and Kinross	147,800
14	City of Dundee	144,300
15	North Ayrshire	135,200
16	East Ayrshire	120,200
17	Scottish Borders	112,900
18	South Ayrshire	111,400
19	Angus	110,600
20	East Dunbartonshire	104,600
21	East Lothian	97,500
22	West Dunbartonshire	90,600
23	Stirling	89,900
24	East Renfrewshire	89,500
25	Argyll and Bute	89,200
26	Moray	87,700
27	Midlothian	81,100
28	Inverclyde	79,800
29	Clackmannanshire	50,600
30	Na h-Eileanan Siar (Western Isles)	26,200
31	Shetland Islands	22,400
32	Orkney Islands	20,100

References

"Table 8a Mid-2010 Population Estimates: Selected age groups for local authorities in the United Kingdom; estimated resident population.". Population Estimates for UK, England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, Mid-2010. Office for National Statistics. 3 June 2011. http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/publications/re-reference-tables.html?edition=tcm%3A77-231847. Retrieved 1 October 2011. 

See also

• List of Scottish council areas by area
• List of Scottish council areas by population density
• List of English districts by population
• List of Welsh principal areas by population
• List of Northern Ireland districts by population