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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 2018
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 3,292 9,204 2,305 5,108 24,156 0 44,065
Alt Empordà 7,755 27,542 12,892 5,443 86,937 0 140,569
Alt Penedès 837 13,519 25,971 14,874 52,921 0 108,122
Alt Urgell 2,255 5,928 0 0 12,041 0 20,224
Alta Ribagorça 0 1,558 2,216 0 0 0 3,774
Anoia 2,472 7,623 18,005 23,726 67,263 0 119,089
Aran 636 3,854 0 5,493 0 0 9,983
Bages 1,573 4,497 27,778 55,567 10,820 76,250 176,485
Baix Camp 1,254 12,580 7,776 18,583 45,171 103,477 188,841
Baix Ebre 368 4,165 13,558 14,762 45,015 0 77,868
Baix Empordà 4,796 10,607 6,395 5,203 106,460 0 133,461
Baix Llobregat 0 1,865 15,650 37,855 397,046 366,752 819,168
Baix Penedès 498 2,124 19,359 5,505 74,923 0 102,409
Barcelonès 0 0 0 0 36,669 2,217,973 2,254,642
Berguedà 4,026 5,549 13,330 0 16,199 0 39,104
Cerdanya 2,852 6,049 0 8,981 0 0 17,882
Conca de Barberà 2,697 3,583 6,439 7,384 0 0 20,103
Garraf 0 0 8,210 0 74,619 66,274 149,103
Garrigues 4,129 3,069 5,571 6,002 0 0 18,771
Garrotxa 2,544 11,121 8,462 0 34,486 0 56,613
Gironès 1,226 8,292 21,220 18,801 40,981 100,266 190,786
Maresme 0 2,043 14,248 76,071 228,474 126,988 447,824
Moianès 812 4,012 2,418 6,190 0 0 13,432
Montsià 369 2,953 7,258 21,286 35,217 0 67,083
Noguera 4,543 11,273 6,051 0 16,841 0 38,708
Osona 4,089 8,855 37,821 28,163 79,406 0 158,334
Pallars Jussà 1,902 2,426 2,939 5,824 0 0 13,091
Pallars Sobirà 3,351 1,419 2,164 0 0 0 6,934
Pla d'Urgell 0 10,432 11,568 0 14,740 0 36,740
Pla de l'Estany 1,379 4,095 6,917 0 19,615 0 32,006
Priorat 4,926 1,563 2,807 0 0 0 9,296
Ribera d'Ebre 785 8,975 6,562 5,642 0 0 21,964
Ripollès 2,692 2,987 8,689 0 10,632 0 25,000
Segarra 3,341 3,381 0 16,100 0 0 22,822
Segrià 3,396 17,367 27,578 22,441 0 137,856 208,638
Selva 882 6,252 21,566 51,295 89,034 0 169,029
Solsonès 2,483 1,895 0 9,014 0 0 13,392
Tarragonès 563 5,797 25,318 23,939 64,874 132,299 252,790
Terra Alta 1,208 7,266 3,009 0 0 0 11,483
Urgell 1,983 7,012 0 10,453 16,795 0 36,243
Vallès Occidental 169 747 4,440 40,603 216,850 655,096 917,905
Vallès Oriental 1,120 4,675 22,794 85,458 180,128 112,114 406,289
Catalonia 83,203 258,154 429,284 635,766 2,098,313 4,095,345 7,600,065
Metropolità 1,369 10,695 59,550 239,987 1,059,167 3,478,923 4,849,691
Comarques Gironines 21,274 70,896 86,141 80,742 388,145 100,266 747,464
Camp de Tarragona 12,732 32,727 44,645 55,014 134,201 235,776 515,095
Terres de l'Ebre 2,730 23,359 30,387 41,690 80,232 0 178,398
Ponent 17,392 52,534 50,768 54,996 48,376 137,856 361,922
Comarques Centrals 14,126 23,988 82,476 98,934 106,425 76,250 402,199
Alt Pirineu i Aran 10,996 21,234 7,319 20,298 12,041 0 71,888
Penedès 2,584 22,721 67,998 44,105 269,726 66,274 473,408
Barcelona 14,510 53,826 190,665 368,507 1,360,395 3,621,447 5,609,350
Girona 23,701 73,971 86,141 89,723 388,145 100,266 761,947
Lleida 29,032 72,147 58,087 75,327 60,417 137,856 432,866
Tarragona 15,960 58,210 94,391 102,209 289,356 235,776 795,902
Source: Idescat. Municipal population register.

Last update: January 2, 2019.

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 "..".