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Registrar General's Annual Report - For the fourth year running, Scotland's population increased during the year to mid-2006. As in previous years, migration was the reason for the increase, with over 21,000 more people coming to Scotland than left it. There were 300 more deaths than births so, without the effect of migration, the population would have fallen slightly. But in the full 2006 calendar year, for the first time since 1994, there were more births than deaths, by a margin of 600. That was thanks both to an increase in the number of births and a decrease in the number of deaths, compared to the previous calendar year.

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