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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 2017
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 3,278 9,176 2,266 5,163 24,112 0 43,995
Alt Empordà 7,719 27,359 12,787 5,465 86,375 0 139,705
Alt Penedès 836 13,360 25,674 14,779 52,281 0 106,930
Alt Urgell 2,260 6,021 0 0 12,015 0 20,296
Alta Ribagorça 0 1,562 2,265 0 0 0 3,827
Anoia 2,488 9,571 15,889 23,487 66,842 0 118,277
Aran 617 3,856 0 5,512 0 0 9,985
Bages 1,539 4,468 27,766 55,368 10,802 75,152 175,095
Baix Camp 1,294 12,512 7,735 18,355 44,452 103,123 187,471
Baix Ebre 369 4,197 13,699 14,971 44,944 0 78,180
Baix Empordà 4,801 10,632 6,402 5,194 105,877 0 132,906
Baix Llobregat 0 1,826 15,532 37,441 394,601 364,596 813,996
Baix Penedès 496 2,066 19,292 5,489 73,507 0 100,850
Barcelonès 0 0 0 0 36,624 2,211,603 2,248,227
Berguedà 4,038 5,568 13,292 0 16,115 0 39,013
Cerdanya 2,818 5,966 0 8,839 0 0 17,623
Conca de Barberà 3,187 3,091 6,451 7,307 0 0 20,036
Garraf 0 0 8,043 0 73,384 66,077 147,504
Garrigues 4,235 3,121 5,614 6,005 0 0 18,975
Garrotxa 2,544 11,054 8,392 0 34,194 0 56,184
Gironès 1,727 7,733 20,886 18,657 40,067 99,013 188,083
Maresme 0 1,989 14,079 75,291 226,560 126,127 444,046
Moianès 821 4,019 2,374 6,065 0 0 13,279
Montsià 397 2,978 7,276 21,366 35,474 0 67,491
Noguera 4,624 11,302 6,130 0 16,670 0 38,726
Osona 4,100 10,854 35,652 28,000 77,966 0 156,572
Pallars Jussà 1,942 2,483 2,949 5,906 0 0 13,280
Pallars Sobirà 3,384 1,435 2,128 0 0 0 6,947
Pla d'Urgell 0 10,442 11,598 0 14,574 0 36,614
Pla de l'Estany 1,393 4,074 6,874 0 19,397 0 31,738
Priorat 4,460 2,065 2,820 0 0 0 9,345
Ribera d'Ebre 784 9,119 6,675 5,625 0 0 22,203
Ripollès 2,699 2,962 8,727 0 10,611 0 24,999
Segarra 2,827 3,858 0 16,051 0 0 22,736
Segrià 3,410 17,301 27,516 22,505 0 137,327 208,059
Selva 888 4,315 23,328 50,761 88,545 0 167,837
Solsonès 2,506 1,880 0 8,974 0 0 13,360
Tarragonès 577 5,741 24,971 23,740 63,952 131,507 250,488
Terra Alta 1,209 7,414 3,011 0 0 0 11,634
Urgell 1,986 7,053 4,985 5,405 16,599 0 36,028
Vallès Occidental 180 735 4,415 40,107 215,428 649,166 910,031
Vallès Oriental 1,625 4,048 22,426 84,617 178,720 111,823 403,259
Catalonia 84,058 259,206 429,919 626,445 2,080,688 4,075,514 7,555,830
Metropolità 1,883 9,948 58,826 237,456 1,051,933 3,463,315 4,823,361
Comarques Gironines 21,771 68,129 87,396 80,077 385,066 99,013 741,452
Camp de Tarragona 12,796 32,585 44,243 54,565 132,516 234,630 511,335
Terres de l'Ebre 2,759 23,708 30,661 41,962 80,418 0 179,508
Ponent 17,082 53,077 55,843 49,966 47,843 137,327 361,138
Comarques Centrals 14,164 25,974 80,187 98,407 104,883 75,152 398,767
Alt Pirineu i Aran 11,021 21,323 7,342 20,257 12,015 0 71,958
Penedès 2,582 24,462 65,421 43,755 266,014 66,077 468,311
Barcelona 15,025 56,848 185,142 365,155 1,349,323 3,604,544 5,576,037
Girona 24,167 71,158 87,396 88,916 385,066 99,013 755,716
Lleida 28,815 72,841 63,185 70,358 59,858 137,327 432,384
Tarragona 16,051 58,359 94,196 102,016 286,441 234,630 791,693
Source: Idescat. Municipal population register.

Last update: December 29, 2017.

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 "..".