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Population. By place of birth. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces

Registered population 1 of January. By place of birth. Born in Catalonia. Counties, areas and provinces Catalonia
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia
2014 3,603,987 435,809 332,356 462,880 4,835,032
2013 3,583,260 433,690 332,912 460,948 4,810,810
2012 3,562,020 430,965 333,563 458,609 4,785,157
2011 3,534,596 427,501 333,683 455,530 4,751,310
Units: Persons.
Source: Idescat. Municipal population register.
Registered population 1 of January. By place of birth. Born in rest of Spain. Counties, areas and provinces Catalonia
Andalucía Aragon Extremadura Balears and C. Valenciana Centre (1) North (2) Rest of Spain (3) Total
2014 618,341 103,994 127,006 72,438 272,916 136,135 62,413 1,393,243
2013 630,171 106,238 129,387 72,531 276,992 137,950 63,908 1,417,177
2012 642,740 108,506 131,884 73,048 281,298 140,160 65,844 1,443,480
2011 654,285 110,303 134,094 72,863 285,170 141,813 67,105 1,465,633
Units: Persons.
Source: Idescat. Municipal population register.
Notes:
Centre: Castile and Leon, Castile-La Mancha and Madrid.
North: Galicia, Asturias, Cantabria, Basque Country, Navarra and La Rioja.
Rest of Spain: Canaries, Murcia, Ceuta and Melilla.
Registered population 1 of January. By place of birth. Born abroad and total population. Counties, areas and provinces Catalonia
Born abroad Total
2014 1,290,628 7,518,903
2013 1,325,663 7,553,650
2012 1,342,271 7,570,908
2011 1,322,675 7,539,618
Units: Persons.
Source: Idescat. Municipal population register.
Note: Law 23/2010, of July 22, on the creation of the area of Penedès, divides Catalonia into eight territorial planning areas. This change implies that the data for the Metropolitan Area, Central Counties and Camp de Tarragona are not directly comparable with previous years.

Last update: February 19, 2015.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

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.