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UK debt is ~£1600 billion pounds.
UK Population is ~63 million.
Scottish Population is ~5.3 million.
My appalling maths gives us the following:
1600/63=25.4 billion of debt per million head of population.
Therefore Scotland would have a "share" of the national debt that equates to £135 billion.
Salmond reckons that if he succeeds in claiming the North Sea oil for Scotland then it'll be worth £10 billion/year, so it looks like he'd break even in 20 years ish, given year on year increases in the cost of extraction and so forth.