Experts predict that 108,000 new jobs will be created in Scotland over the next 10 years and nearly half (49,000) of these will be in the Lothians.
Source: SIMS
In June 2007 Edinburgh's unemployment rate hit an all time low of 1.9%, the lowest level recorded since the current local authority boundary was established in 1975.
Source: NOMIS
Scotland is home to a higher concentration of venture backed companies than anywhere else in the UK, many of them located in Edinburgh and the Lothians.
