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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 2016
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 3,316 9,117 2,294 5,095 24,285 0 44,107
Alt Empordà 7,188 27,980 13,136 5,466 86,348 0 140,118
Alt Penedès 827 13,387 25,444 14,598 52,019 0 106,275
Alt Urgell 2,312 6,051 0 0 12,185 0 20,548
Alta Ribagorça 0 1,574 2,293 0 0 0 3,867
Anoia 2,511 7,555 17,817 23,224 66,397 0 117,504
Aran 626 3,845 0 5,459 0 0 9,930
Bages 1,543 6,446 25,645 55,236 10,759 74,752 174,381
Baix Camp 1,285 12,639 7,700 18,325 44,794 103,615 188,358
Baix Ebre 371 4,228 13,824 15,267 45,287 0 78,977
Baix Empordà 4,746 10,515 6,380 5,128 105,829 0 132,598
Baix Llobregat 0 1,807 15,495 37,247 392,732 362,602 809,883
Baix Penedès 0 2,538 19,176 5,520 72,579 0 99,813
Barcelonès 0 0 0 0 36,496 2,196,337 2,232,833
Berguedà 4,059 5,573 13,371 0 16,175 0 39,178
Cerdanya 2,818 6,076 0 8,810 0 0 17,704
Conca de Barberà 3,253 3,160 6,517 7,290 0 0 20,220
Garraf 0 0 7,976 0 72,928 65,972 146,876
Garrigues 4,337 3,170 5,583 6,000 0 0 19,090
Garrotxa 2,569 11,103 8,327 0 34,000 0 55,999
Gironès 1,731 7,636 20,523 18,604 39,429 98,255 186,178
Maresme 0 1,994 18,922 69,786 225,286 125,517 441,505
Moianès 832 4,069 2,351 5,957 0 0 13,209
Montsià 396 3,072 7,290 21,516 35,372 0 67,646
Noguera 4,718 11,513 6,194 0 16,530 0 38,955
Osona 4,101 10,772 35,702 27,798 77,268 0 155,641
Pallars Jussà 1,971 2,483 2,973 6,026 0 0 13,453
Pallars Sobirà 3,383 1,458 2,145 0 0 0 6,986
Pla d'Urgell 0 10,544 11,582 0 14,585 0 36,711
Pla de l'Estany 1,419 4,094 6,809 0 19,239 0 31,561
Priorat 4,995 1,552 2,834 0 0 0 9,381
Ribera d'Ebre 793 9,323 6,781 5,574 0 0 22,471
Ripollès 2,672 2,969 8,877 0 10,583 0 25,101
Segarra 2,887 3,896 0 15,905 0 0 22,688
Segrià 3,486 17,389 27,532 22,330 0 138,144 208,881
Selva 904 4,275 23,328 50,502 88,685 0 167,694
Solsonès 2,504 1,895 0 8,914 0 0 13,313
Tarragonès 569 5,754 24,657 23,710 63,781 131,094 249,565
Terra Alta 1,235 7,527 2,999 0 0 0 11,761
Urgell 2,020 7,163 0 10,395 16,481 0 36,059
Vallès Occidental 187 723 4,414 39,530 214,388 644,998 904,240
Vallès Oriental 1,568 4,063 22,218 84,063 177,761 111,665 401,338
Catalonia 84,132 260,928 429,109 623,275 2,072,201 4,052,951 7,522,596
Metropolità 1,834 9,950 63,400 230,626 1,046,663 3,441,119 4,793,592
Comarques Gironines 21,229 68,572 87,380 79,700 384,113 98,255 739,249
Camp de Tarragona 13,418 32,222 44,002 54,420 132,860 234,709 511,631
Terres de l'Ebre 2,795 24,150 30,894 42,357 80,659 0 180,855
Ponent 17,448 53,675 50,891 54,630 47,596 138,144 362,384
Comarques Centrals 14,216 27,927 78,142 97,905 104,202 74,752 397,144
Alt Pirineu i Aran 11,110 21,487 7,411 20,295 12,185 0 72,488
Penedès 2,082 22,945 66,989 43,342 263,923 65,972 465,253
Barcelona 15,023 56,811 189,355 357,439 1,342,209 3,581,843 5,542,680
Girona 23,634 71,684 87,380 88,510 384,113 98,255 753,576
Lleida 29,262 73,523 58,302 75,029 59,781 138,144 434,041
Tarragona 16,213 58,910 94,072 102,297 286,098 234,709 792,299
Source: Idescat. Municipal population register.

Last update: December 20, 2016.

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 "..".