Scotland’s local authorities made debt repayments of £53 million in 2022-23 and had total debt of £21.8 billion at March 31, 2023. That’s according to…

Scotland’s onshore gross domestic product (GDP) grew 0.4% in December, according to Scotland’s Chief Statistician. This followed 0.8% contraction in October and no growth (0.0%…

The value of Scottish exports increased 11.3% from £71.8 billion in 2020 to £79.9 billion in 2021, according to the Export Statistics Scotland 2021 report…

Average rents for 2-bedroom properties in the private rented sector increased in Scotland by 14.3% in the year to September 2023 to reach an average…

Output in the Scotland’s services sector, which accounts for around three quarters of the economy, is estimated to have grown by 0.3% in June. However,…

The proportion of 2021-22 school leavers in Scotland in a “positive destination” nine months after the end of the school year was at its highest…

Average farm income in Scotland is estimated to have been £50,000 in 2021-22 — an increase of over £11,000 on the previous year against the…

By Mark McSherry Scotland’s local authorities made debt repayments of £553 million in 2021-22, and had total debt of £20.5 billion at March 31, 2022….

The Chief Statistician for Scotland has released figures on the 2022 Scottish harvest that show it was a record year for cereal yields, boosted by…

Scotland’s onshore gross domestic product (GDP) fell by 0.3% in August, after remaining flat with 0.0% growth in July, according to statistics announced today by…

Scotland’s public sector revenue has been estimated at £73.8 billion for 2021-22 — up a record £11.1 billion from the previous year. Scottish public spending…

The net revenue expenditure of Scotland’s councils was £11.108 billion in 2020-21, according to a report from the Chief Statistician. Revenue expenditure is the cost of…

Scotland’s Chief Statistician has released statistics showing Scotland’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew 6.9% in 2021 compared to 2020. Equivalent UK growth over the year…

Scotland’s onshore GDP fell by 0.4% in December, according to statistics announced on Wednesday by the Chief Statistician. Output remains above the pre-pandemic level of…

Scotland’s onshore economic output is now estimated to be back above pre-pandemic levels, according to new figures published by the Chief Statistician. The figures show…

Scotland’s total exports to international markets and the rest of the UK in 2019 — excluding oil and gas — are estimated to have been…

Scotland’s Chief Statistician has released statistics showing that onshore Scottish gross domestic product (GDP) rose 4.7% during the April to June quarter of 2021. Over the…

Scotland’s onshore gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 0.9% in June, according to statistics announced on Wednesday by the Chief Statistician. “Using the experimental monthly…

Scotland’s onshore GDP grew by 0.9% in May, according to the latest statistics from the Chief Statistician. However, output remains 2.7% below the pre-pandemic level…

Scotland’s onshore GDP grew by 2% in April as the stay at home restriction was lifted and the phased re-opening of consumer-facing services began, according…

Scotland’s onshore gross domestic product (GDP) grew 2.1% in March, according to latest statistics from the Chief Statistician. Output remains 5.4% below the pre-pandemic level…

By Mark McSherry Scottish local authorities had debt of £19.3 billion at March 31, 2020, an increase of 6.3% from £18.2 billion at March 31,…

The Scottish Government said on Wednesday that statistics produced by Scotland’s Chief Statistician show the approximate sales value of oil and gas produced in Scotland is…

Scotland’s GDP increased by 0.6% in October, according to statistics announced on Friday by the Chief Statistician. This is the sixth consecutive month of increasing…

Scotland’s Chief Statistician has released new statistics showing that the Scottish economy grew by 16% during the third quarter of 2020, covering July to September,…

Scotland’s gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 1.6% in September — but output remains 7.6% below the level in February before the impact of the…

Scotland’s gross domestic output (GDP) increased by 2.6% in August, according to statistics announced on Wednesday by the Chief Statistician. This is the fourth consecutive…

Scotland’s marine economy generated £4.3 billion in gross value added (GVA) in 2018, down 17% from 2017, according to an “experimental statistics” report from the…

Scotland’s Chief Statistician released figures on Thursday that show Scottish registered fishing vessels landed 393 thousand tonnes of sea fish and shellfish with a gross…

Scotland’s gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 6.8% in July, according to statistics announced on Wednesday by the Chief Statistician. The July increase follows revised…

Scotland’s Chief Statistician has released statistics showing the Scottish economy measured by gross domestic product (GDP) contracted by 19.4% during the second quarter of 2020…

Scotland’s gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 5.7% in June, according to statistics announced on Wednesday by the chief statistician. The growth in June followed…

Scotland’s gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 1.5% in May — after falls of 18.9% in April and 5.5% in March — according to statistics…

Scotland’s total international and rest of the UK exports — excluding oil and gas — increased 2.9% to £85 billion in 2018. Exports to the…

The Scottish Government said on Tuesday that new statistics released by the Chief Statistician show households in Scotland had just over £1 trillion in personal…

The number of long term empty properties and second homes in Scotland rose in the latest year by 1,260 to 65,277, the third consecutive annual…

Community Ownership is growing in Scotland, especially in the Western Isles, Highland and Argyll and Bute areas. That’s according to the Community Ownership in Scotland…

The Edinburgh and Lothians area of Scotland saw the highest increase in private rents for two-bedroom properties in the nine years from 2010 to 2019,…

The Scottish Government said statistics published on Tuesday by Scotland’s Chief Statistician show income from council houses was £1.21 billion in 2018-19. Of this, around…

Scotland’s Chief Statistician on Thursday released the latest Council Tax Collection Statistics for Scottish local authorities, up to and including the financial year 2018-19. “In…

Incomes from commercial farms in Scotland rose 19% to £35,400 in 2017-18, the highest level in six years, according to the latest statistics published by…

The Scottish Government said there were 18,750 new build homes completed across all sectors in the year to September 2018, an increase of 4% or…

Total income from Scottish farming is estimated to have fallen by £57 million to £672 million in 2018, after increasing in 2017. The chief statistician in…

New public sector employment statistics for Scotland, released by Scotland’s Chief Statistician, show that there were 545,100 people employed in the public sector in Scotland…

There were an estimated 345,915 private sector businesses operating in Scotland as at March 2018 — representing a decrease of 8,830 businesses since March 2017…

Bad weather affected the output of Scottish agriculture over the past year, with sheep and cattle numbers falling and reductions in output of cereals and…

Scottish GDP grew by 0.8% in the first half of this year compared to 0.6% in the UK, according to new statistics from Scotland’s chief statistician….

The sales value of oil and gas produced in Scotland in 2017-18 is estimated to be £20 billion, an increase of 18.2% compared to 2016-17, despite…

The Scottish Government said on Wednesday that Scotland’s public sector finances “are continuing to improve” — with total public sector revenue reaching £60 billion for…

Scotland’s GDP for 2017-18 has been estimated at £170.4 billion in total — or £31,367 per person — including a geographical share of UK extra-regio…

Scotland’s onshore GDP for the whole of 2017 is estimated at £152.1 billion, or £28,046 per person in current prices, according to the latest Quarterly National…

The Scottish economy grew 0.3% in the fourth quarter of 2017, according to statistics announced by Scotland’s chief statistician. UK GDP growth for this quarter was…

Scotland’s chief statistician on Wednesday released figures for gross expenditure on research and development (GERD) in Scotland in 2016. The figures show GERD in Scotland…

Incomes from commercial farms in Scotland increased by around 94% in 2016-17 — but this rise simply reversed an alarming decline in the previous year. According…

Total income from farming in Scotland is estimated to have increased by £245 million to about £917 million in 2017, according to the Chief Statistician in the Scottish…

Scotland’s international exports — excluding oil and gas — increased by 1.6% to £29.8 billion in 2016, according to Scotland’s chief statistician. However exports to the…

The Scottish economy grew 0.2% during the third quarter of 2017, according to gross domestic product (GDP) statistics announced by Scotland’s Chief Statistician. During the…

Spending on business research and development in Scotland exceeded £1 billion in 2016 for the first time ever, according to data published by Scotland’s Chief…

There were 19,598 new build homes started across all sectors in Scotland over the year ending June 2017, an increase of 13%, or 2,188 homes,…

Scotland’s Chief Statistician has published the Estimate of Community Owned Land in Scotland 2017 showing there were 562,230 acres in community ownership as of June…

The Student Awards Agency Scotland (SAAS) provided support of £834.8 million to students in higher education in 2016-17 — an increase of 3.6% — according to…

Scotland’s 2017 cereal harvest is expected to rise 12% on 2016, almost fully recovering from last year’s poor results, the Scottish Government said. Despite “less…

The approximate sales value of oil and gas produced in Scotland for the financial year 2016-17 rose 15.2% to £17.5 billion, according to new figures from Scotland’s…

New statistics from Scotland’s Chief Statistician show the total outstanding bank debt of Scottish farms increased 5% over the past year to £2.32 billion — the highest since records…

The average decision time in Scotland for major developments in 2016-17 was 37 weeks, six weeks slower than the average of 31 weeks in the…

The National Farmers Union in Scotland has called on Scotland’s booming food and drink sector to address the growing imbalance between the profitability enjoyed by…

Scottish gross domestic product (GDP) grew 0.4% over the year of 2016 but contracted 0.2% in the fourth quarter compared to the previous three months, according to Scotland’s…

UPDATED — Scotland’s gross expenditure on research and development (GERD) rose 1.1% or £23 million in 2015 to £2.15 billion, according to a report from Scotland’s chief statistician. Scottish GERD…

The UK production boss of Norwegian multinational Statoil said “large discoveries can still be made” in the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS). Statoil (UK) is the operator of the massive Mariner…