Editing Angus, Scotland (section)

==Demography==

===Population structure===
{{Historical populations
|title=Historical Angus population
|type=Ireland
|1801|65,068
|1811|69,376
|1821|74,436
|1831|84,630
|1841|106,890
|1851|119,357
|1911|118,748
|1921|101,767
|1931|93,803
|1941|95,290
|1951|96,777
|1961|93,666
|1971|90,554
|1981|98,685
|1991|107,866
|2001|108,400
|2011|116,000
|source=<br/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10056755/cube/TOT_POP|title=Angus District through time &#124; Population Statistics &#124; Total Population|website=visionofbritain.org.uk}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/census/table_page.jsp?tab_id=S1911COU_M1&u_id=10145958&show=DB&min_c=6&max_c=10|title=Vision of Britain; 1911 Census: County Report|website=visionofbritain.org.uk}}</ref>}}
In the 2001 census, the population of Angus was recorded as 108,400. 20.14% were under the age of 16, 63.15% were between 16 and 65 and 18.05% were aged 65 or above.

Of the 16 to 74 age group, 32.84% had no formal qualifications, 27.08% were educated to 'O' Grade/Standard Grade level, 14.38% to Higher level, 7.64% to HND or equivalent level and 18.06% to degree level.

===Language in Angus===
The most recent available census results (2001) show that [[Scottish Gaelic|Gaelic]] is spoken by 0.45% of the Angus population. This, similar to other lowland areas, is lower than the national average of 1.16%.<ref>{{cite web |title=Scotlands Census Results Online (SCROL) |work=Comparative Population Profile: Angus Council Area Scotland |url=http://www.scrol.gov.uk/scrol/browser/profile.jsp?profile=Population&mainArea=Angus&mainLevel=CouncilArea |access-date=26 June 2013}}</ref> These figures are self-reported and are not broken down into levels of fluency.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Category !! Number !! Percentage
|-
| All people || 108,400 || 100
|-
| Understands spoken Gaelic but cannot speak, read or write it || 351 || 0.32
|-
| Speaks reads and writes Gaelic || 238 || 0.22
|-
| Speaks but neither reads nor writes Gaelic || 188 || 0.17
|-
| Speaks and reads but cannot write Gaelic || 59 ||0.05
|-
| Reads but neither speaks not writes Gaelic || 61 || 0.06
|-
| Writes but neither speaks nor reads Gaelic || 13 || 0.01
|-
| Reads and writes but does not speak Gaelic || 22 || 0.02
|-
| Other combination of skills in Gaelic || 7 || 0.01
|-
| No knowledge of Gaelic || 107,461 || 99.13
|}

Meanwhile, the 2011 census found that 38.4% of the population in Angus can speak [[Scots language|Scots]], above the Scottish average of 30.1%. This puts Angus as the council area with the sixth highest proficiency in Scots, behind only [[Shetland]], [[Orkney]], [[Moray]], [[Aberdeenshire]], and [[East Ayrshire]].

Historically, the dominant language in Angus was [[Pictish language|Pictish]] until the sixth to seventh centuries AD when the area became progressively gaelicised, with Pictish extinct by the mid-ninth century.<ref>Forsyth, 1997; Forsyth, 2006{{full citation needed|date=July 2016}}</ref> Gaelic/[[Middle Irish]] began to retreat from lowland areas in the late-eleventh century and was absent from the Eastern lowlands by the fourteenth century. It was replaced there by [[Middle Scots]], the contemporary local [[South Northern]] dialect of [[Modern Scots]], while Gaelic persisted as a majority language in the [[Scottish Highlands|Highlands]] and [[Hebrides]] until the 19th century.<ref>{{cite book |last=Smout |first=T.&nbsp;C. |author-link=Christopher Smout |title=A history of the Scottish people: 1650–1830 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r4SRmgEACAAJ&pg=PP1 |year=2001 |publisher=Fontana Press |isbn=978-0-00-686027-3}}{{page needed|date=July 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Withers |first=Charles W. J. |author-link=Charles W. J. Withers |title=Gaelic in Scotland, 1698-1981: The Geographical History of a Language |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v21iAAAAMAAJ&pg=PP1 |year=1984 |publisher=John Donald Publishers |location=Edinburgh |isbn=978-0-85976-097-3}}{{page needed|date=July 2016}}</ref>

Angus Council are planning to raise the status of Gaelic in the county by adopting a series of measures, including bilingual road signage, communications, vehicle livery and staffing.<ref>{{cite report |publisher=Angus Council |title=Gaelic Language Plan 2014–2019 |url=http://www.angus.gov.uk/download/downloads/id/968/angus_gaelic_plan_2014_-_english_version.pdf |date=17 September 2014 |access-date=6 August 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160817060508/http://www.angus.gov.uk/download/downloads/id/968/angus_gaelic_plan_2014_-_english_version.pdf |archive-date=17 August 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

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