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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 2012
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 2,815 9,882 2,375 5,143 25,084 0 45,299
Alt Empordà 7,160 27,970 8,299 10,628 87,460 0 141,517
Alt Penedès 384 14,132 25,996 14,223 51,517 0 106,252
Alt Urgell 2,466 6,391 0 0 12,529 0 21,386
Alta Ribagorça 0 1,719 2,516 0 0 0 4,235
Anoia 2,661 7,698 18,165 23,501 66,792 0 118,817
Bages 1,923 9,080 21,369 66,362 10,780 76,570 186,084
Baix Camp 1,313 13,153 7,487 18,134 46,237 107,211 193,535
Baix Ebre 399 4,532 15,123 16,021 47,050 0 83,125
Baix Empordà 4,849 10,580 7,014 5,106 106,205 0 133,754
Baix Llobregat 0 1,757 15,224 36,394 391,557 361,867 806,799
Baix Penedès 0 2,690 19,017 5,486 73,945 0 101,138
Barcelonès 0 0 0 0 34,482 2,219,570 2,254,052
Berguedà 3,721 6,617 8,956 5,063 16,845 0 41,202
Cerdanya 3,115 4,675 2,300 8,957 0 0 19,047
Conca de Barberà 2,483 4,356 6,953 7,356 0 0 21,148
Garraf 0 0 7,953 0 72,563 66,591 147,107
Garrigues 4,213 3,956 5,983 6,060 0 0 20,212
Garrotxa 2,526 11,279 8,237 0 33,813 0 55,855
Gironès 1,246 8,165 29,350 18,082 30,146 97,198 184,187
Maresme 0 1,973 13,980 73,604 222,846 124,084 436,487
Montsià 482 3,413 7,447 13,455 47,324 0 72,121
Noguera 4,441 12,350 6,457 0 16,952 0 40,200
Osona 4,492 8,872 37,960 27,774 75,490 0 154,588
Pallars Jussà 2,040 2,402 3,156 6,515 0 0 14,113
Pallars Sobirà 3,555 1,580 2,322 0 0 0 7,457
Pla d'Urgell 0 10,647 11,891 0 14,729 0 37,267
Pla de l'Estany 1,420 3,954 6,748 0 19,341 0 31,463
Priorat 4,849 2,228 2,894 0 0 0 9,971
Ribera d'Ebre 891 10,026 7,246 5,704 0 0 23,867
Ripollès 2,837 3,123 9,404 0 10,904 0 26,268
Segarra 2,998 4,164 0 16,203 0 0 23,365
Segrià 2,512 18,766 27,167 21,686 0 139,834 209,965
Selva 953 4,272 23,378 51,845 93,070 0 173,518
Solsonès 2,556 1,919 0 9,201 0 0 13,676
Tarragonès 532 5,657 28,380 18,796 63,963 133,954 251,282
Terra Alta 1,323 6,092 5,298 0 0 0 12,713
Urgell 2,650 6,986 4,975 5,633 16,731 0 36,975
Val d'Aran 653 3,949 0 5,454 0 0 10,056
Vallès Occidental 200 2,716 2,417 38,938 212,964 640,938 898,173
Vallès Oriental 1,646 5,346 24,628 83,184 175,632 112,196 402,632
Catalonia 82,304 269,067 438,065 624,508 2,076,951 4,080,013 7,570,908
Metropolità 1,846 11,792 56,249 232,120 1,037,481 3,458,655 4,798,143
Comarques Gironines 20,991 69,343 92,430 85,661 380,939 97,198 746,562
Camp de Tarragona 11,992 35,276 48,089 49,429 135,284 241,165 521,235
Terres de l'Ebre 3,095 24,063 35,114 35,180 94,374 0 191,826
Ponent 16,814 56,869 56,473 49,582 48,412 139,834 367,984
Comarques Centrals 12,692 26,488 68,285 108,400 103,115 76,570 395,550
Alt Pirineu i Aran 11,829 20,716 10,294 20,926 12,529 0 76,294
Penedès 3,045 24,520 71,131 43,210 264,817 66,591 473,314
Barcelona 14,442 58,633 176,648 369,043 1,331,468 3,601,816 5,552,050
Girona 23,549 72,893 92,430 94,618 380,939 97,198 761,627
Lleida 29,226 75,512 66,767 70,752 60,941 139,834 443,032
Tarragona 15,087 62,029 102,220 90,095 303,603 241,165 814,199
Source: Idescat. Municipal population register.
Note: Law 23/2010, of July 22, on the creation of the area of Penedès, divides Catalonia into eight territorial planning areas. This change implies that the data for the Metropolitan Area, Central Counties and Camp de Tarragona are not directly comparable with previous years.

Last update: January 7, 2013.

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 "..".