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Municipalities. By population brackets. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces

Municipalities. By population brackets. Counties, areas and provinces 2003
Habitants
Fins a 500 De 501 a 2.000 De 2.001 a 5.000 De 5.001 a 10.000 De 10.001 a 50.000 Més de 50000 Total
Alt Camp 11 10 1 0 1 0 23
Alt Empordà 35 25 4 2 2 0 68
Alt Penedès 3 16 5 1 2 0 27
Alt Urgell 12 6 0 0 1 0 19
Alta Ribagorça 0 2 1 0 0 0 3
Anoia 14 10 3 3 3 0 33
Bages 8 9 8 9 0 1 35
Baix Camp 9 13 2 2 1 1 28
Baix Ebre 1 5 4 2 2 0 14
Baix Empordà 17 9 3 4 3 0 36
Baix Llobregat 0 1 5 6 13 5 30
Baix Penedès 2 6 3 1 2 0 14
Barcelonès 0 0 0 0 1 4 5
Berguedà 20 7 3 0 1 0 31
Cerdanya 12 4 0 1 0 0 17
Conca de Barberà 16 3 2 1 0 0 22
Garraf 0 1 1 1 2 1 6
Garrigues 14 7 2 1 0 0 24
Garrotxa 8 9 3 0 1 0 21
Gironès 8 8 7 2 1 1 27
Maresme 1 1 7 10 10 1 30
Montsià 1 4 2 3 2 0 12
Noguera 14 13 2 0 1 0 30
Osona 21 13 10 4 3 0 51
Pallars Jussà 10 2 1 1 0 0 14
Pallars Sobirà 12 3 0 0 0 0 15
Pla d'Urgell 0 11 4 0 1 0 16
Pla de l'Estany 4 5 1 0 1 0 11
Priorat 18 4 1 0 0 0 23
Ribera d'Ebre 2 9 3 0 0 0 14
Ripollès 12 2 4 0 1 0 19
Segarra 14 5 1 1 0 0 21
Segrià 9 20 7 1 0 1 38
Selva 3 6 10 5 2 0 26
Solsonès 12 2 0 1 0 0 15
Tarragonès 4 6 6 1 3 1 21
Terra Alta 3 7 2 0 0 0 12
Urgell 10 7 1 1 1 0 20
Val d'Aran 5 3 1 0 0 0 9
Vallès Occidental 1 2 2 5 8 5 23
Vallès Oriental 7 7 8 9 10 2 43
Catalunya 353 283 130 78 79 23 946
Metropolità 12 28 28 32 46 18 164
Comarques Gironines 87 64 32 13 11 1 208
Camp de Tarragona 60 42 15 5 7 2 131
Terres de l'Ebre 7 25 11 5 4 0 52
Ponent 61 63 17 4 3 1 149
Comarques Centrals 75 41 24 17 7 1 165
Alt Pirineu i Aran 51 20 3 2 1 0 77
Barcelona 72 67 52 48 53 19 311
Girona 97 66 32 14 11 1 221
Lleida 117 83 20 6 4 1 231
Tarragona 67 67 26 10 11 2 183
Source: Idescat. Municipal population register.

Last update: June 18, 2009.

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 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. 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. During the second quarter of the year, provisional data is published that is considered valid until the official data is made available. The provisional data is only available for Catalonia and the provinces.

The population figures from the Populations census are only for statistical purposes, i.e. they are not official population figures. The last census was in 2011, and the reference date is November 1, 2011. The Population and Housing Censuses 2011 are a state-wide statistical operation conducted by the INE and that is being undertaken for the first time by European mandate. The reference date is November 1, 2011. The census model observed by the INE in producing that census consists of an operation that combines exploitation of the administrative records with a sample-based survey and a count of buildings. The availability of the Municipal population register as a consolidated population register made it possible to complete a census of such a nature.

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 "..".