Series 3 > Scottish population statistics, including Webster's Analysis of population, 1755

INTRODUCTION
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whom came to help in the war effort either in the home¬
land as civilians, or as members of the forces.
While the trend of population in Scotland as a whole
has been upward, the experience of individual counties
has varied greatly. Appendix I shows the population
of each of our thirty-three counties at 1755 and at every
official census from 1801 onwards. In order to show clearly
the varying trend of the population in individual counties
a table has been prepared showing the intercensal increase
or decrease of each county. This is included in Appen¬
dix II and gives a broad picture of great growth in the
counties of the Central Industrial Belt, of a slow increase
to a maximum about the middle of the nineteenth century
in the counties north of Inverness and a somewhat similar
trend in the border counties which reached their maximum
later than the highland counties.
The early beginnings of the industrial revolution are
clearly seen by the large population increases both actual
and proportional between 1755 and 1801 in the counties
which are predominantly industrial.
To illustrate the diverse experience in regard to popula¬
tion trend in the counties the following summary, Table V,
has been prepared showing the experience of three typical
highland counties namely, Caithness, Sutherland and
Ross and Cromarty; three border counties, Peebles,
Selkirk and Roxburgh; and three counties of the Central
Industrial Belt, Lanark, Midlothian and Renfrew. Figures
for Scotland as a whole are also included in the table on
page xxvi.
These figures are displayed in graphic form in Plate B
on page xxxv. It will be observed from an examination of
Table V and the graphs that both for Scotland as a whole
and in the Central industrial counties the population is at its
recorded maximum in 1951 and that, apart from a slight