The charts illustrate the proportion of population trends in Scotland in three different stages from 1940 to 2020.

The line graphs represent the percentages of people who were born and died,

therefore

, the population structure between 1940 and 2020 in Scotland.

Overall

, it is admittable that the level of persons born is commensurate with the number of deaths, but

this

trend has been recently broken. To be precise, both the birth and death rates accounted for about 0.5% in the year 2020, following the increase in mortality and the opposite effect was observed amongst the people born in Scotland. Delving into details, it can be observed that

Scottish

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nation has drastically decreased throughout the timeline.

While

in 1940 the birth rate amounted to 2.5% and the death percentage was 1.5% only, in the

last

decade of the observing period the death rate exceeded the amount of people who were born. As for the population growth rate, it

firstly

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hit a peak in the 1950s, with just under 1.5%, but

then

started to decline to 0 in the 2000s. Interestingly, the demise levels were low in the same year, with just above 0.5%.