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Total population growth
Catalonia Spain European Union-27
2022 17.9 11.8 (b) Break in time series 6.1 (b) Break in time series
2021 1.5 0.7 -0.8 (b) Break in time series
2020 2.2 1.4 -0.6 (p) Provisional value
2019 13.4 8.4 2.1 (b) Break in time series
2018 10.0 6.0 0.0
2017 6.5 2.8 1.5 (b) Break in time series
2016 6.6 1.9 1.6
2015 3.4 -0.2 2.6 (b) Break in time series
2014 -1.0 -1.3 1.8 (b) Break in time series
2013 -5.8 -4.6 3.2
2012 -4.6 -1.9 1.6 (b) Break in time series
2011 1.8 3.2 1.4 (b) Break in time series
2010 5.3 3.9 1.7 (b) Break in time series
2009 6.1 5.3 1.7
2008 16.1 12.4 3.0 (b) Break in time series
2007 21.0 19.6 3.5
2006 21.5 17.4 3.2
2005 21.4 16.3 3.2
2004 22.7 17.4 3.8
2003 20.3 17.1 3.6
2002 24.8 19.1 3.4
2001 22.9 9.1 1.1 (b) Break in time series
2000 12.7 4.8 2.1 (b) Break in time series
Units: Per 1.000 inhabitants.
Source Catalonia: Idescat. Source Spain and European Union: Eurostat.
(b) Break in time series.
(p) Provisional value.

Last update: June 8, 2023. Revised series on February 19, 2024.

EP

These statistics have a specific section with all the information available: Population Estimates (EP).

Methodological note

The difference between the size of the population at the beginning and end of a period. It is equal to the algebraic sum of natural increase and net migration (including corrections). There is negative change when both of these components are negative or when one is negative and has a higher absolute value than the other.

The growth rate is calculated as a quotient between the changes in the number of inhabitants over the course of a year and the average population of this same year. The value is expressed in thousands of inhabitants.

The data for Catalonia have been calculated using population estimates. As of 2012 onwards, the statistics on births and deaths include the events of the population resident in Catalonia which take place in other autonomous communities.