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

Registered population. By size of municipality. Counties, areas and provinces 2003
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 3,059 8,839 4,197 0 21,649 0 37,744
Alt Empordà 9,207 21,142 14,175 15,162 51,057 0 110,743
Alt Penedès 1,160 20,659 14,853 5,545 44,089 0 86,306
Alt Urgell 2,579 5,801 0 0 11,726 0 20,106
Alta Ribagorça 0 1,522 2,165 0 0 0 3,687
Anoia 2,858 10,473 8,641 20,556 56,053 0 98,581
Bages 2,165 8,000 25,515 58,612 0 67,269 161,561
Baix Camp 2,007 13,835 9,149 13,359 23,555 94,407 156,312
Baix Ebre 377 4,432 11,029 12,674 41,861 0 70,373
Baix Empordà 4,262 9,588 9,413 34,231 55,059 0 112,553
Baix Llobregat 0 1,281 16,516 41,576 332,123 338,615 730,111
Baix Penedès 877 9,416 8,748 7,339 42,703 0 69,083
Barcelonès 0 0 0 0 32,845 2,159,605 2,192,450
Berguedà 3,701 8,565 11,252 0 15,437 0 38,955
Cerdanya 2,829 4,677 0 8,034 0 0 15,540
Conca de Barberà 3,337 3,109 6,567 6,388 0 0 19,401
Garraf 0 1,737 2,485 8,548 47,366 57,300 117,436
Garrigues 3,555 5,108 5,287 5,365 0 0 19,315
Garrotxa 2,259 10,425 7,395 0 29,546 0 49,625
Gironès 2,196 6,955 19,970 14,443 24,513 81,220 149,297
Maresme 350 995 22,893 74,681 166,810 111,879 377,608
Montsià 391 3,174 6,837 20,472 29,854 0 60,728
Noguera 4,143 11,715 5,779 0 14,068 0 35,705
Osona 4,686 15,284 25,984 23,471 66,446 0 135,871
Pallars Jussà 2,251 1,882 2,912 5,518 0 0 12,563
Pallars Sobirà 3,209 3,187 0 0 0 0 6,396
Pla d'Urgell 0 11,427 8,882 0 10,625 0 30,934
Pla de l'Estany 1,271 5,402 3,803 0 16,244 0 26,720
Priorat 4,261 2,479 2,595 0 0 0 9,335
Ribera d'Ebre 884 9,598 11,982 0 0 0 22,464
Ripollès 2,849 1,167 11,368 0 10,754 0 26,138
Segarra 3,107 4,041 4,138 8,424 0 0 19,710
Segrià 3,149 23,041 23,165 5,702 0 118,035 173,092
Selva 906 6,357 33,210 31,323 59,934 0 131,730
Solsonès 2,612 1,510 0 7,925 0 0 12,047
Tarragonès 1,084 7,230 18,241 5,314 43,442 121,076 196,387
Terra Alta 936 6,518 4,868 0 0 0 12,322
Urgell 2,718 6,869 4,224 5,071 13,616 0 32,498
Val d'Aran 596 3,230 4,547 0 0 0 8,373
Vallès Occidental 200 1,887 5,633 35,769 170,714 559,597 773,800
Vallès Oriental 2,205 8,095 26,365 62,778 135,189 105,914 340,546
Catalonia 88,236 290,652 404,783 538,280 1,567,278 3,814,917 6,704,146
Metropolità 3,915 34,654 88,745 228,897 929,136 3,332,910 4,618,257
Comarques Gironines 22,950 61,036 99,334 95,159 247,107 81,220 606,806
Camp de Tarragona 14,625 44,908 49,497 32,400 131,349 215,483 488,262
Terres de l'Ebre 2,588 23,722 34,716 33,146 71,715 0 165,887
Ponent 16,672 62,201 51,475 24,562 38,309 118,035 311,254
Comarques Centrals 16,022 43,832 71,392 110,564 137,936 67,269 447,015
Alt Pirineu i Aran 11,464 20,299 9,624 13,552 11,726 0 66,665
Barcelona 16,752 76,990 160,137 331,536 1,067,072 3,400,179 5,052,666
Girona 25,359 63,479 99,334 103,193 247,107 81,220 619,692
Lleida 28,912 81,553 61,099 38,005 50,035 118,035 377,639
Tarragona 17,213 68,630 84,213 65,546 203,064 215,483 654,149
Source: Idescat. Municipal population register.

Last update: June 18, 2009.

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 "..".