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Population. By size of municipality. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces

Population. By size of municipality. Counties, areas and provinces 2023
Up to 500 From 501 to 2,000 From 2,001 to 5,000 From 5,001 to 10,000 From 10,001 to 50,000 More than 50,000 Total
Alt Camp 2,515 10,951 2,389 5,267 24,954 0 46,076
Alt Empordà 8,227 27,255 15,372 5,624 90,288 0 146,766
Alt Penedès 362 12,824 30,164 15,573 53,537 0 112,460
Alt Urgell 2,249 6,034 0 0 12,479 0 20,762
Alta Ribagorça 0 1,602 2,417 0 0 0 4,019
Anoia 2,671 8,148 19,041 15,234 81,658 0 126,752
Aran 690 4,066 0 5,740 0 0 10,496
Bages 1,679 4,795 29,319 47,922 20,980 78,570 183,265
Baix Camp 799 11,910 10,659 19,621 50,123 108,535 201,647
Baix Ebre 364 4,248 14,396 15,628 46,698 0 81,334
Baix Empordà 5,036 10,869 6,795 5,656 112,973 0 141,329
Baix Llobregat 0 0 18,452 39,369 408,657 374,094 840,572
Baix Penedès 0 3,209 21,387 5,692 85,413 0 115,701
Barcelonès 0 0 0 0 37,906 2,276,069 2,313,975
Berguedà 4,105 5,751 13,768 0 16,994 0 40,618
Cerdanya 1,837 6,022 2,251 9,775 0 0 19,885
Conca de Barberà 2,795 3,652 6,569 7,464 0 0 20,480
Garraf 0 0 4,417 5,201 80,738 68,768 159,124
Garrigues 4,051 3,052 5,633 6,199 0 0 18,935
Garrotxa 2,237 12,353 8,770 0 38,003 0 61,363
Gironès 1,294 8,785 18,163 25,165 44,170 104,038 201,615
Maresme 0 2,244 15,806 70,571 249,164 129,613 467,398
Moianès 883 4,386 2,729 6,670 0 0 14,668
Montsià 416 3,010 7,390 21,874 37,554 0 70,244
Noguera 4,510 11,301 6,212 0 17,544 0 39,567
Osona 4,339 9,708 39,450 29,670 84,339 0 167,506
Pallars Jussà 1,937 2,439 3,042 5,991 0 0 13,409
Pallars Sobirà 3,503 1,541 2,244 0 0 0 7,288
Pla d'Urgell 0 10,677 11,759 0 15,301 0 37,737
Pla de l'Estany 1,427 4,160 7,115 0 20,492 0 33,194
Priorat 4,935 1,596 2,829 0 0 0 9,360
Ribera d'Ebre 750 9,033 6,601 5,656 0 0 22,040
Ripollès 2,852 3,113 8,997 0 10,818 0 25,780
Segarra 3,424 3,521 0 16,993 0 0 23,938
Segrià 3,381 17,752 27,927 23,426 0 142,990 215,476
Selva 917 4,681 24,827 55,726 96,463 0 182,614
Solsonès 2,516 1,996 0 9,213 0 0 13,725
Tarragonès 655 6,040 22,673 31,383 71,160 138,326 270,237
Terra Alta 1,225 7,120 3,128 0 0 0 11,473
Urgell 1,979 7,105 0 10,687 18,189 0 37,960
Vallès Occidental 187 922 4,702 43,079 221,529 678,607 949,026
Vallès Oriental 1,204 5,046 24,597 80,325 196,335 114,642 422,149
Catalonia 81,951 262,917 451,990 646,394 2,244,459 4,214,252 7,901,963
Metropolità 1,484 9,664 66,286 233,344 1,113,591 3,573,025 4,997,394
Comarques Gironines 21,990 71,216 90,039 92,171 413,207 104,038 792,661
Camp de Tarragona 11,699 34,149 45,119 63,735 146,237 246,861 547,800
Terres de l'Ebre 2,755 23,411 31,515 43,158 84,252 0 185,091
Ponent 17,345 53,408 51,531 57,305 51,034 142,990 373,613
Comarques Centrals 14,704 25,744 86,086 93,475 122,313 78,570 420,892
Alt Pirineu i Aran 10,216 21,704 9,954 21,506 12,479 0 75,859
Penedès 1,758 23,621 71,460 41,700 301,346 68,768 508,653
Barcelona 14,776 54,321 202,445 353,614 1,451,837 3,720,363 5,797,356
Girona 23,340 76,102 90,039 101,946 413,207 104,038 808,672
Lleida 29,381 71,725 61,485 78,249 63,513 142,990 447,343
Tarragona 14,454 60,769 98,021 112,585 315,902 246,861 848,592
Source: Idescat, based on the INE Population and Housing Census.

Last update: March 12, 2024.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Municipality
Administrative constituency of a territorial nature, governed by a council, considered the basic unit of territorial organisation and primary element of citizen participation in public affairs, as established by Law 8/1987, of April 15 on municipalities and the local regime for Catalonia. A municipality enjoys its own autonomy, is of a legal character and has full capacity to exercise the public functions bestowed upon it, in order to represent the interests of its respective collective and to manage the public services that it assumed ownership of. The government and administration of the municipality correspond to the municipal council.
Population
All inhabitants of a given place. Since 1996, when the continuous management system was established for the Municipal Population Register, in accordance with Royal Decree 2612/1996, of December 20, official population figures for municipalities have been obtained annually using data referred to January 1 of each year.
Neighbour
Person who habitually lives in a municipality, whether present or absent on the date of reference. Acquisition of the condition of neighbour is produced as soon as that person is recorded on the civil register (padró). Those who habitually live in a municipality but are away on the date of reference are still considered neighbours of the municipality they usually live in. The concept of a neighbour substitutes the concepts of a present resident and absent resident in a municipality in accordance with Royal Decree 2612/1996, of December 20, which modified the Regulation for the population and territorial demarcation of local entities on July 11, 1986. The figure of the person in transit has also been eliminated.

Methodological aspects

The basic on information population by nationality and place of birth, as well as the population of the municipalities, is obtained from the Municipal Population Register.

The Municipal population register is the administrative record containing the residents of a given municipality and it constitutes proof that they reside in the municipality and have their usual home there. Population figures from the revision of the Register on 1 January are declared official in each of the municipalities by the Government of Spain, by means of a Royal Decree. The exploitation of the municipal population register provides figures on the number of people registered in the population census in each municipality in Catalonia. The official figures are available by municipality and they are broken down according to sex, age, nationality and place of birth.

Unavailable information is represented using the symbol ":". When the value is lower than that of the minimum unit to be able to estimate the statistical operation or if it effects statistical confidentiality, the symbol used is "..".