Regional view
Scotland Dashboard
Scotland: 49 indicators across 11 domains; devolved services from Scottish sources (Public Health Scotland, Scottish Government, Police Scotland, Scottish Courts / SPS), compared at the stress-score level.
Scotland Societal Resilience · October 2026
A stress reading from 0 to 100. Higher means more stress; 0 is calm, 100 is the most severe reading the scale describes.
robust range 42–48 under alternative methods
A single measured reading across eleven national systems. Scotland is under strain, and has risen 2 points since the previous release.
Medium · 47 of 49 indicators verified
Release movements
What changed this release
Since the September 2026 release
17 of 47 comparable indicators had a real change in their inputs since the September 2026 release.
- New observations
- 12
- the publisher released a later period
- Revised values
- 5
- the same period, a changed figure
- Restated series
- 7
- an earlier point in the history changed
- Changed sources
- 12
- a different series, provider or link
- Normalisation changes
- 1
- scored against fixed bounds instead of own history, or the reverse
An indicator can appear in more than one category. Counts cover scored indicators present in both releases.
Key deteriorations
| Metric | Domain | Score | Movement | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scotland drug-misuse death ratenew observation, history restated, source changed | Population Health | 85 | +40 pts | 0.90 |
| Energy bill affordability pressurenew observation, history restated, source changed | Living Standards | 66 | +35 pts | 0.70 |
| Trust in national governmentnew observation, source changed | Trust and Wellbeing | 78 | +31 pts | 0.70 |
| Scotland prison population vs capacitynew observation, source changed | Rule of Law and Safety | 87 | +10 pts | 0.90 |
| Anxietynew observation, source changed | Trust and Wellbeing | 80 | +7 pts | 0.85 |
Change since the September 2026 release. Only indicators whose inputs changed since that release are listed: a new observation, a revised value, a restated series or a changed source.
Key improvements
| Metric | Domain | Score | Movement | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chronic lonelinessnew observation, source changed | Trust and Wellbeing | 17 | −44 pts | 0.75 |
| Rail cancellations (GB)new observation, source changed | Infrastructure | 24 | −39 pts | 0.85 |
| Scotland outstanding scheduled trialsnew observation, source changed, normalisation changed | Rule of Law and Safety | 20 | −19 pts | 0.85 |
| Public sector net investmentvalue revised, history restated | Fiscal Resilience | 16 | −14 pts | 0.85 |
| NHS Scotland A&E seen within 4 hoursnew observation, source changed | Public Service Capacity | 57 | −4 pts | 0.90 |
Change since the September 2026 release. Only indicators whose inputs changed since that release are listed: a new observation, a revised value, a restated series or a changed source.
Scores are stress readings out of 100; higher means more stress. Most indicators update annually or quarterly, so a large movement usually marks a new official release entering the index, not a change that happened within the month.
Scotland · measured
11 systems under review, Scotland
Each figure is a stress score from 0 to 100. Higher means more stress, so the most stressed systems sit at the top.
Rows link to the UK-level detail page (per-region detail is a later phase). Scores shown are Scotland-specific.
The tick beside each score is its movement since the September 2026 release.
Weighting
What drives the headline figure
The headline is a weighted reading across all systems. This shows which carry the most weight once their stress score and domain weight are combined.
Historical trajectory
Scotland stress over time
Concurrent stress
Domains at extreme stress
No domain is scoring 75 or above in this release. Where several do at once, they are listed here as a signal; concurrent strain is reported rather than scored, because the index holds no model of how a failure in one domain would propagate to another.
The monthly reading
Follow the number over time
A single reading is a snapshot. The value is in the direction of travel. Once a month we send the new national score, what moved, and the sharpest findings from the data, with every figure traceable to its official source.
Data provenance
47 of 49 indicators are drawn from verified official sources, each labelled on its metric card. The remaining 2 are provisional placeholders, marked as seed where they appear, because no clean official figure is published yet; placeholders are shown for transparency and are excluded from all scoring.