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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 2008
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 2,715 9,578 7,175 0 24,710 0 44,178
Alt Empordà 7,382 27,901 5,980 20,225 73,925 0 135,413
Alt Penedès 875 14,989 23,252 13,369 49,273 0 101,758
Alt Urgell 2,511 6,445 0 0 12,986 0 21,942
Alta Ribagorça 0 1,779 2,553 0 0 0 4,332
Anoia 3,126 8,693 15,109 23,265 64,617 0 114,810
Bages 2,401 9,773 19,006 64,452 10,661 75,053 181,346
Baix Camp 1,257 12,303 6,710 17,276 42,087 107,770 187,403
Baix Ebre 392 4,640 13,682 15,411 47,179 0 81,304
Baix Empordà 4,708 10,522 11,715 0 103,793 0 130,738
Baix Llobregat 0 1,659 14,502 34,035 378,994 352,559 781,749
Baix Penedès 0 4,564 16,103 5,377 69,600 0 95,644
Barcelonès 0 0 0 0 33,223 2,202,355 2,235,578
Berguedà 3,283 7,326 8,791 5,016 17,072 0 41,488
Cerdanya 3,329 3,832 2,132 9,365 0 0 18,658
Conca de Barberà 2,569 4,461 7,062 7,069 0 0 21,161
Garraf 0 0 7,128 0 68,379 64,905 140,412
Garrigues 3,996 4,598 5,814 5,942 0 0 20,350
Garrotxa 2,434 11,324 7,776 0 32,903 0 54,437
Gironès 1,562 7,228 26,241 16,870 28,763 94,484 175,148
Maresme 0 1,870 23,222 69,899 205,750 119,780 420,521
Montsià 449 3,484 7,444 13,212 46,469 0 71,058
Noguera 3,594 12,951 6,621 0 16,341 0 39,507
Osona 4,558 10,541 35,161 26,730 73,149 0 150,139
Pallars Jussà 2,415 1,959 3,151 6,190 0 0 13,715
Pallars Sobirà 3,526 1,547 2,373 0 0 0 7,446
Pla d'Urgell 0 10,445 11,949 0 13,675 0 36,069
Pla de l'Estany 1,429 3,778 6,521 0 17,917 0 29,645
Priorat 4,855 2,207 2,807 0 0 0 9,869
Ribera d'Ebre 912 10,166 7,266 5,500 0 0 23,844
Ripollès 2,875 1,270 11,674 0 11,012 0 26,831
Segarra 3,156 4,251 0 14,930 0 0 22,337
Segrià 3,120 19,711 23,353 19,476 0 131,731 197,391
Selva 849 6,157 25,440 43,947 88,253 0 164,646
Solsonès 2,659 1,860 0 9,166 0 0 13,685
Tarragonès 1,446 5,877 23,438 12,403 60,849 137,536 241,549
Terra Alta 1,385 6,158 5,342 0 0 0 12,885
Urgell 2,703 6,837 4,798 5,577 16,149 0 36,064
Val d'Aran 660 3,901 0 5,633 0 0 10,194
Vallès Occidental 213 2,446 2,357 36,453 203,992 616,908 862,369
Vallès Oriental 1,534 4,817 27,675 74,052 166,353 112,034 386,465
Catalonia 84,878 273,848 431,323 580,840 1,978,074 4,015,115 7,364,078
Metropolità 2,622 25,781 98,136 227,808 1,105,964 3,468,541 4,928,852
Comarques Gironines 21,239 68,180 95,347 81,042 356,566 94,484 716,858
Camp de Tarragona 12,842 38,990 63,295 42,125 197,246 245,306 599,804
Terres de l'Ebre 3,138 24,448 33,734 34,123 93,648 0 189,091
Ponent 16,569 58,793 52,535 45,925 46,165 131,731 351,718
Comarques Centrals 16,027 38,193 78,067 128,629 165,499 75,053 501,468
Alt Pirineu i Aran 12,441 19,463 10,209 21,188 12,986 0 76,287
Barcelona 15,388 62,528 176,203 347,271 1,271,463 3,543,594 5,416,447
Girona 24,091 70,969 95,347 90,407 356,566 94,484 731,864
Lleida 29,419 76,913 62,744 66,914 59,151 131,731 426,872
Tarragona 15,980 63,438 97,029 76,248 290,894 245,306 788,895
Source: Idescat. Municipal population register.

Last update: November 4, 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 "..".