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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 2015
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 2,830 9,749 2,333 5,073 24,321 0 44,306
Alt Empordà 7,120 27,920 13,188 5,543 86,067 0 139,838
Alt Penedès 861 13,348 25,461 14,585 51,913 0 106,168
Alt Urgell 2,351 6,095 0 0 12,249 0 20,695
Alta Ribagorça 0 1,570 2,314 0 0 0 3,884
Anoia 2,540 7,574 17,885 23,251 66,194 0 117,444
Bages 1,520 6,427 25,802 55,432 10,768 74,655 174,604
Baix Camp 1,276 12,845 7,677 18,242 44,792 103,194 188,026
Baix Ebre 378 4,294 14,119 15,417 45,540 0 79,748
Baix Empordà 4,754 10,540 6,486 5,089 105,486 0 132,355
Baix Llobregat 0 1,771 15,439 37,039 391,377 361,025 806,651
Baix Penedès 0 2,515 19,209 5,513 72,697 0 99,934
Barcelonès 0 0 0 0 35,814 2,189,330 2,225,144
Berguedà 3,596 6,178 13,505 0 16,238 0 39,517
Cerdanya 2,857 4,160 2,028 8,825 0 0 17,870
Conca de Barberà 2,846 3,685 6,668 7,283 0 0 20,482
Garraf 0 0 7,944 0 72,355 65,684 145,983
Garrigues 3,928 3,733 5,662 6,019 0 0 19,342
Garrotxa 2,593 11,186 8,340 0 33,944 0 56,063
Gironès 2,228 7,200 25,228 13,379 39,372 97,586 184,993
Maresme 0 1,996 13,840 74,667 224,142 124,867 439,512
Moianès 821 4,044 2,368 5,865 0 0 13,098
Montsià 399 3,102 7,272 22,039 35,712 0 68,524
Noguera 4,777 11,607 6,246 0 16,479 0 39,109
Osona 4,107 8,834 37,600 27,777 76,607 0 154,925
Pallars Jussà 2,010 2,408 3,016 6,175 0 0 13,609
Pallars Sobirà 3,402 1,459 2,199 0 0 0 7,060
Pla d'Urgell 0 10,511 11,642 0 14,900 0 37,053
Pla de l'Estany 1,385 4,095 6,757 0 19,299 0 31,536
Priorat 4,592 2,088 2,867 0 0 0 9,547
Ribera d'Ebre 811 9,496 6,939 5,477 0 0 22,723
Ripollès 2,664 3,012 9,034 0 10,632 0 25,342
Segarra 2,881 3,948 0 15,818 0 0 22,647
Segrià 2,984 18,002 27,383 22,413 0 138,542 209,324
Selva 907 4,251 23,307 50,659 89,431 0 168,555
Solsonès 2,523 1,887 0 9,004 0 0 13,414
Tarragonès 576 5,745 24,542 23,659 64,162 131,255 249,939
Terra Alta 1,238 7,625 3,009 0 0 0 11,872
Urgell 2,073 7,311 4,989 5,491 16,444 0 36,308
Val d'Aran 626 3,850 0 5,450 0 0 9,926
Vallès Occidental 197 748 4,423 39,286 213,200 642,807 900,661
Vallès Oriental 1,606 4,070 22,259 83,673 177,016 111,751 400,375
Catalonia 82,257 260,879 438,980 618,143 2,067,151 4,040,696 7,508,106
Metropolità 1,883 9,901 58,329 234,665 1,041,549 3,429,780 4,776,107
Comarques Gironines 21,651 68,204 92,340 74,670 384,231 97,586 738,682
Camp de Tarragona 12,120 34,112 44,087 54,257 133,275 234,449 512,300
Terres de l'Ebre 2,826 24,517 31,339 42,933 81,252 0 182,867
Ponent 16,643 55,112 55,922 49,741 47,823 138,542 363,783
Comarques Centrals 13,769 26,590 80,333 98,078 103,613 74,655 397,038
Alt Pirineu i Aran 11,246 19,542 9,557 20,450 12,249 0 73,044
Penedès 2,119 22,901 67,073 43,349 263,159 65,684 464,285
Barcelona 14,653 55,425 186,526 361,575 1,335,624 3,570,119 5,523,922
Girona 24,059 71,343 92,340 83,495 384,231 97,586 753,054
Lleida 28,599 72,967 65,479 70,370 60,072 138,542 436,029
Tarragona 14,946 61,144 94,635 102,703 287,224 234,449 795,101
Source: Idescat. Municipal population register.

Last update: December 23, 2015.

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 "..".