Professor Matt Qvortrup is a world expert on how countries achieve independence. He says Scotland would easily become a successful independent nation. He says international law would permit a post-independence Scotland to avoid all legacy responsibilities for UK debt – though the trade-off for that could be the loss of pensions.

According to the Office of National Statistics, England and Scotland reported equal increase in real GDP economic activity by gross domestic product between 1998 to 2019

Considering Scotland has all the necessary machinery in place to become an independent state, we see no obvious reasons why Scotland would not succeed economically if it were to do so, especially if achieved within the bounds of the law.