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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 2013
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 3,307 9,332 2,341 5,142 24,649 0 44,771
Alt Empordà 7,075 28,071 8,248 10,520 87,437 0 141,351
Alt Penedès 378 14,025 25,896 14,411 51,532 0 106,242
Alt Urgell 2,443 6,217 0 0 12,468 0 21,128
Alta Ribagorça 0 1,656 2,441 0 0 0 4,097
Anoia 2,591 7,674 18,141 23,493 66,568 0 118,467
Bages 1,897 9,076 21,340 66,442 10,793 76,170 185,718
Baix Camp 1,311 13,008 7,587 18,078 46,681 106,790 193,455
Baix Ebre 394 4,429 14,540 16,001 46,150 0 81,514
Baix Empordà 4,817 10,611 6,888 5,128 106,343 0 133,787
Baix Llobregat 0 1,746 15,319 36,693 392,851 362,035 808,644
Baix Penedès 0 2,662 19,195 5,517 73,726 0 101,100
Barcelonès 0 0 0 0 34,822 2,205,615 2,240,437
Berguedà 3,649 6,505 13,792 0 16,609 0 40,555
Cerdanya 2,987 4,548 2,185 8,910 0 0 18,630
Conca de Barberà 2,424 4,296 6,863 7,409 0 0 20,992
Garraf 0 0 7,936 0 72,398 66,275 146,609
Garrigues 4,098 3,906 5,951 6,103 0 0 20,058
Garrotxa 2,581 11,271 8,273 0 33,981 0 56,106
Gironès 1,244 8,200 24,975 23,127 30,247 97,292 185,085
Maresme 0 1,985 13,982 73,986 223,379 124,099 437,431
Montsià 468 3,298 7,439 13,227 47,145 0 71,577
Noguera 4,455 12,310 6,398 0 16,665 0 39,828
Osona 4,434 8,825 38,025 27,795 75,990 0 155,069
Pallars Jussà 2,446 1,800 3,073 6,288 0 0 13,607
Pallars Sobirà 3,498 1,558 2,274 0 0 0 7,330
Pla d'Urgell 0 10,509 11,781 0 14,959 0 37,249
Pla de l'Estany 1,398 4,041 6,767 0 19,119 0 31,325
Priorat 4,710 2,163 2,883 0 0 0 9,756
Ribera d'Ebre 857 9,806 7,206 5,608 0 0 23,477
Ripollès 2,801 3,074 9,322 0 10,798 0 25,995
Segarra 2,911 4,052 0 16,008 0 0 22,971
Segrià 2,988 18,155 27,172 22,017 0 139,809 210,141
Selva 950 4,238 23,368 51,508 93,064 0 173,128
Solsonès 2,530 1,903 0 9,188 0 0 13,621
Tarragonès 548 5,622 28,833 18,883 63,795 133,545 251,226
Terra Alta 1,294 7,899 3,117 0 0 0 12,310
Urgell 2,134 7,459 0 10,600 16,670 0 36,863
Val d'Aran 629 3,953 0 5,508 0 0 10,090
Vallès Occidental 200 747 4,431 39,254 213,367 640,922 898,921
Vallès Oriental 1,187 5,947 24,788 83,484 175,876 111,707 402,989
Catalonia 81,634 266,577 432,770 630,328 2,078,082 4,064,259 7,553,650
Metropolità 1,387 10,425 58,520 233,417 1,040,295 3,444,378 4,798,143
Comarques Gironines 20,866 69,506 87,841 90,283 380,989 97,292 746,562
Camp de Tarragona 12,300 34,421 48,507 49,512 135,125 240,335 521,235
Terres de l'Ebre 3,013 25,432 32,302 34,836 93,295 0 191,826
Ponent 16,586 56,391 51,302 54,728 48,294 139,809 367,984
Comarques Centrals 12,510 26,309 73,157 103,425 103,392 76,170 395,550
Alt Pirineu i Aran 12,003 19,732 9,973 20,706 12,468 0 76,294
Penedès 2,969 24,361 71,168 43,421 264,224 66,275 473,314
Barcelona 13,760 56,949 183,650 365,558 1,334,185 3,586,823 5,540,925
Girona 23,329 72,988 87,841 99,193 380,989 97,292 761,632
Lleida 29,232 74,125 61,275 75,712 60,762 139,809 440,915
Tarragona 15,313 62,515 100,004 89,865 302,146 240,335 810,178
Source: Idescat. Municipal population register.

Last update: January 3, 2014.

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 "..".