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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 2009
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 2,757 9,743 2,309 5,100 25,092 0 45,001
Alt Empordà 7,497 26,538 8,063 10,625 85,778 0 138,501
Alt Penedès 389 15,802 23,710 13,790 50,662 0 104,353
Alt Urgell 2,531 6,443 0 0 13,063 0 22,037
Alta Ribagorça 0 1,805 2,570 0 0 0 4,375
Anoia 2,669 9,439 15,588 23,527 65,891 0 117,114
Bages 2,448 10,064 19,306 65,487 10,779 76,558 184,642
Baix Camp 1,239 12,716 7,020 17,566 43,567 107,118 189,226
Baix Ebre 400 4,644 13,971 15,815 46,894 0 81,724
Baix Empordà 4,822 10,578 7,057 5,017 105,499 0 132,973
Baix Llobregat 0 1,719 14,776 35,040 384,186 357,934 793,655
Baix Penedès 0 2,620 18,435 5,441 72,365 0 98,861
Barcelonès 0 0 0 0 33,761 2,217,839 2,251,600
Berguedà 3,281 7,280 8,971 5,052 17,160 0 41,744
Cerdanya 3,418 3,985 2,231 9,022 0 0 18,656
Conca de Barberà 2,522 4,526 7,149 7,305 0 0 21,502
Garraf 0 0 7,444 0 69,732 65,890 143,066
Garrigues 3,951 4,573 5,897 6,058 0 0 20,479
Garrotxa 2,489 11,398 7,928 0 33,524 0 55,339
Gironès 1,606 7,401 27,261 17,301 29,985 96,188 179,742
Maresme 0 1,907 18,704 76,157 208,075 121,722 426,565
Montsià 449 3,521 7,483 13,415 47,321 0 72,189
Noguera 4,119 12,643 6,672 0 16,779 0 40,213
Osona 4,551 10,708 35,710 27,143 74,299 0 152,411
Pallars Jussà 2,401 1,974 3,237 6,228 0 0 13,840
Pallars Sobirà 3,622 1,621 2,382 0 0 0 7,625
Pla d'Urgell 0 10,607 12,118 0 14,319 0 37,044
Pla de l'Estany 1,446 3,824 6,556 0 18,327 0 30,153
Priorat 4,930 2,230 2,864 0 0 0 10,024
Ribera d'Ebre 896 10,136 7,277 5,695 0 0 24,004
Ripollès 2,884 3,277 9,603 0 11,057 0 26,821
Segarra 3,090 4,262 0 15,473 0 0 22,825
Segrià 3,077 20,004 23,939 20,340 0 135,919 203,279
Selva 857 6,297 21,073 50,013 91,149 0 169,389
Solsonès 2,628 1,898 0 9,233 0 0 13,759
Tarragonès 991 6,653 24,514 12,559 62,787 140,323 247,827
Terra Alta 1,385 6,159 5,399 0 0 0 12,943
Urgell 2,694 6,889 4,940 5,608 16,539 0 36,670
Val d'Aran 647 3,938 0 5,710 0 0 10,295
Vallès Occidental 214 2,577 2,402 37,356 207,923 628,421 878,893
Vallès Oriental 1,559 5,008 28,384 75,635 170,333 113,142 394,061
Catalonia 84,459 277,407 422,943 602,711 2,026,846 4,061,054 7,475,420
Metropolità 2,162 27,013 95,420 237,978 1,124,672 3,504,948 4,992,193
Comarques Gironines 21,601 69,313 87,541 82,956 375,319 96,188 732,918
Camp de Tarragona 12,439 38,488 62,291 47,971 203,811 247,441 612,441
Terres de l'Ebre 3,130 24,460 34,130 34,925 94,215 0 190,860
Ponent 16,931 58,978 53,566 47,479 47,637 135,919 360,510
Comarques Centrals 15,577 39,389 79,575 130,442 168,129 76,558 509,670
Alt Pirineu i Aran 12,619 19,766 10,420 20,960 13,063 0 76,828
Barcelona 14,529 64,917 174,995 359,187 1,292,801 3,581,506 5,487,935
Girona 24,532 72,224 87,541 91,978 375,319 96,188 747,782
Lleida 29,829 77,318 63,986 68,650 60,700 135,919 436,402
Tarragona 15,569 62,948 96,421 82,896 298,026 247,441 803,301
Source: Idescat. Municipal population register.

Last update: March 4, 2010.

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 "..".