Ethnic minorities in Scotland

The recorded population of Asian, African, Caribbean or Black, Mixed or Other ethnic groups doubled to 4% in the 2011 census.

[1] The highest proportion of those claimed to belong to an ethnic minority group were in the two largest cities in Scotland – Edinburgh and Glasgow – at 17.9% and 17.3% respectively.

[2] At the 2011 census in Scotland, a total of 221,000 people were recorded to have claimed to belong to a white ethnic minority group.

The most frequently claimed white ethnic minority groups were as follows:[3] Between 2001 and 2011, Scotland's Asian population had almost doubled, rising by 69,000 people.

Roughly, this amounted to 34,000 people, with:[6] On average, Scotland's cities populations had the highest proportion of ethnic minorities.