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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 2011
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 3,323 9,325 2,385 5,140 25,016 0 45,189
Alt Empordà 7,121 27,663 8,104 10,605 86,935 0 140,428
Alt Penedès 408 16,116 23,901 14,115 51,130 0 105,670
Alt Urgell 2,510 6,489 0 0 13,009 0 22,008
Alta Ribagorça 0 1,767 2,517 0 0 0 4,284
Anoia 2,700 9,620 15,883 23,616 66,690 0 118,509
Bages 1,915 10,959 19,422 66,213 10,767 76,589 185,865
Baix Camp 1,315 13,057 7,399 17,983 45,484 106,709 191,947
Baix Ebre 400 4,593 14,978 15,929 46,734 0 82,634
Baix Empordà 4,808 10,749 6,944 5,066 105,549 0 133,116
Baix Llobregat 0 1,792 15,109 36,108 389,218 361,478 803,705
Baix Penedès 0 2,689 18,890 5,548 73,988 0 101,115
Barcelonès 0 0 0 0 34,157 2,212,123 2,246,280
Berguedà 3,243 7,232 8,964 5,083 17,018 0 41,540
Cerdanya 3,065 4,656 2,260 8,802 0 0 18,783
Conca de Barberà 2,477 4,444 7,015 7,354 0 0 21,290
Garraf 0 0 7,871 0 71,693 66,905 146,469
Garrigues 4,290 4,007 5,975 6,034 0 0 20,306
Garrotxa 2,517 11,218 8,137 0 33,725 0 55,597
Gironès 1,715 7,550 28,646 17,894 30,389 96,722 182,916
Maresme 0 1,925 14,047 73,208 221,849 123,868 434,897
Montsià 464 3,434 7,530 13,449 47,384 0 72,261
Noguera 4,505 12,307 6,542 0 16,877 0 40,231
Osona 4,470 8,783 37,864 27,811 75,276 0 154,204
Pallars Jussà 2,025 2,392 3,246 6,711 0 0 14,374
Pallars Sobirà 3,600 1,588 2,360 0 0 0 7,548
Pla d'Urgell 0 10,585 11,975 0 14,705 0 37,265
Pla de l'Estany 1,416 3,930 6,664 0 19,159 0 31,169
Priorat 4,909 2,226 2,952 0 0 0 10,087
Ribera d'Ebre 877 10,055 7,258 5,699 0 0 23,889
Ripollès 2,865 3,196 9,419 0 10,913 0 26,393
Segarra 3,050 4,199 0 15,942 0 0 23,191
Segrià 2,552 18,709 26,754 21,202 0 138,416 207,633
Selva 959 4,237 23,422 51,241 92,421 0 172,280
Solsonès 2,602 1,902 0 9,304 0 0 13,808
Tarragonès 553 5,549 27,913 18,549 63,493 134,085 250,142
Terra Alta 1,355 6,123 5,369 0 0 0 12,847
Urgell 2,685 6,929 5,000 5,653 17,129 0 37,396
Val d'Aran 658 3,933 0 5,601 0 0 10,192
Vallès Occidental 204 2,642 2,412 38,526 211,495 636,981 892,260
Vallès Oriental 1,641 5,261 29,338 77,460 173,791 112,409 399,900
Catalonia 83,197 273,831 434,465 615,846 2,065,994 4,066,285 7,539,618
Metropolità 2,253 27,736 92,678 239,417 1,153,333 3,513,764 5,029,181
Comarques Gironines 21,401 68,543 91,336 84,806 379,091 96,722 741,899
Camp de Tarragona 12,577 37,290 66,554 54,574 207,981 240,794 619,770
Terres de l'Ebre 3,096 24,205 35,135 35,077 94,118 0 191,631
Ponent 17,082 56,736 56,246 48,831 48,711 138,416 366,022
Comarques Centrals 14,930 38,496 82,133 132,027 169,751 76,589 513,926
Alt Pirineu i Aran 11,858 20,825 10,383 21,114 13,009 0 77,189
Barcelona 13,985 64,726 174,811 362,140 1,323,084 3,590,353 5,529,099
Girona 23,933 72,120 91,336 93,608 379,091 96,722 756,810
Lleida 29,606 75,490 66,629 70,447 61,720 138,416 442,308
Tarragona 15,673 61,495 101,689 89,651 302,099 240,794 811,401
Source: Idescat. Municipal population register.

Last update: December 19, 2011.

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 "..".