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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 2006
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 3,431 7,826 6,509 0 23,315 0 41,081
Alt Empordà 9,195 23,592 10,553 13,808 66,835 0 123,983
Alt Penedès 1,225 15,431 19,622 12,197 48,304 0 96,779
Alt Urgell 2,547 6,177 0 0 12,533 0 21,257
Alta Ribagorça 0 1,757 2,317 0 0 0 4,074
Anoia 3,030 7,984 13,865 22,512 61,807 0 109,198
Bages 2,316 9,009 17,814 61,963 10,362 71,772 173,236
Baix Camp 1,647 14,305 7,457 20,515 27,848 101,767 173,539
Baix Ebre 341 4,479 12,283 14,188 45,077 0 76,368
Baix Empordà 4,560 10,359 10,690 28,487 69,959 0 124,055
Baix Llobregat 0 1,505 18,674 27,277 371,954 348,557 767,967
Baix Penedès 500 5,455 17,294 0 62,507 0 85,756
Barcelonès 0 0 0 0 32,585 2,194,328 2,226,913
Berguedà 3,238 7,145 13,224 0 16,457 0 40,064
Cerdanya 3,106 5,270 0 8,859 0 0 17,235
Conca de Barberà 2,948 3,781 6,892 6,767 0 0 20,388
Garraf 0 0 5,955 0 64,336 62,826 133,117
Garrigues 4,038 4,612 5,776 5,606 0 0 20,032
Garrotxa 2,320 11,023 7,559 0 31,932 0 52,834
Gironès 1,964 8,202 22,164 15,842 28,017 89,890 166,079
Maresme 295 1,166 21,835 86,266 180,815 118,748 409,125
Montsià 444 3,351 7,083 21,825 32,630 0 65,333
Noguera 4,627 11,735 6,263 0 15,769 0 38,394
Osona 4,954 11,699 31,844 25,298 71,995 0 145,790
Pallars Jussà 2,336 1,861 3,050 5,401 0 0 12,648
Pallars Sobirà 3,377 1,452 2,238 0 0 0 7,067
Pla d'Urgell 0 12,031 9,571 0 12,569 0 34,171
Pla de l'Estany 1,326 3,689 6,233 0 17,309 0 28,557
Priorat 4,401 2,678 2,717 0 0 0 9,796
Ribera d'Ebre 881 9,891 7,176 5,098 0 0 23,046
Ripollès 2,791 1,224 11,519 0 10,832 0 26,366
Segarra 3,168 4,169 0 14,444 0 0 21,781
Segrià 3,159 18,940 22,130 17,420 0 125,677 187,326
Selva 864 7,457 21,740 40,304 81,112 0 151,477
Solsonès 2,591 1,636 0 8,823 0 0 13,050
Tarragonès 1,320 6,506 18,940 11,009 53,511 131,158 222,444
Terra Alta 914 6,604 5,197 0 0 0 12,715
Urgell 2,753 6,817 4,454 5,459 15,155 0 34,638
Val d'Aran 637 3,678 0 5,239 0 0 9,554
Vallès Occidental 216 2,182 2,271 34,272 195,035 602,101 836,077
Vallès Oriental 1,456 4,590 30,421 74,909 149,358 110,653 371,387
Catalonia 88,916 271,268 413,330 593,788 1,809,918 3,957,477 7,134,697
Metropolità 3,192 24,874 98,778 234,921 1,042,387 3,437,213 4,841,365
Comarques Gironines 23,020 65,546 90,458 98,441 305,996 89,890 673,351
Camp de Tarragona 14,247 40,551 59,809 38,291 167,181 232,925 553,004
Terres de l'Ebre 2,580 24,325 31,739 41,111 77,707 0 177,462
Ponent 17,745 58,304 48,194 42,929 43,493 125,677 336,342
Comarques Centrals 16,129 37,473 76,747 118,596 160,621 71,772 481,338
Alt Pirineu i Aran 12,003 20,195 7,605 19,499 12,533 0 71,835
Barcelona 16,142 61,050 175,525 344,694 1,203,008 3,508,985 5,309,404
Girona 25,722 67,965 90,458 107,300 305,996 89,890 687,331
Lleida 30,225 77,377 55,799 62,392 56,026 125,677 407,496
Tarragona 16,827 64,876 91,548 79,402 244,888 232,925 730,466
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 "..".