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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 2014
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 2,802 9,731 2,344 5,131 24,570 0 44,578
Alt Empordà 7,046 27,984 13,043 5,481 86,660 0 140,214
Alt Penedès 856 13,415 25,649 14,531 51,811 0 106,262
Alt Urgell 2,375 6,137 0 0 12,366 0 20,878
Alta Ribagorça 0 1,555 2,318 0 0 0 3,873
Anoia 2,586 9,622 16,046 23,331 66,257 0 117,842
Bages 1,898 9,162 26,040 61,273 10,733 75,297 184,403
Baix Camp 1,274 12,777 7,596 18,191 45,449 104,962 190,249
Baix Ebre 395 4,365 14,524 15,590 45,763 0 80,637
Baix Empordà 4,848 10,535 6,527 5,194 105,782 0 132,886
Baix Llobregat 0 1,760 15,390 36,862 391,417 360,820 806,249
Baix Penedès 0 2,559 19,147 5,515 73,041 0 100,262
Barcelonès 0 0 0 0 35,386 2,191,852 2,227,238
Berguedà 3,583 6,323 13,677 0 16,456 0 40,039
Cerdanya 2,871 4,356 2,075 8,761 0 0 18,063
Conca de Barberà 2,866 3,731 6,767 7,359 0 0 20,723
Garraf 0 0 7,954 0 71,991 65,941 145,886
Garrigues 4,009 3,779 5,886 6,088 0 0 19,762
Garrotxa 2,581 11,258 8,284 0 33,913 0 56,036
Gironès 1,236 8,188 25,158 23,173 30,103 97,227 185,085
Maresme 0 1,994 18,881 69,048 223,716 124,280 437,919
Montsià 405 3,198 7,376 22,434 36,200 0 69,613
Noguera 4,348 12,186 6,357 0 16,485 0 39,376
Osona 4,431 10,765 35,829 27,688 76,184 0 154,897
Pallars Jussà 2,403 1,810 3,012 6,305 0 0 13,530
Pallars Sobirà 3,450 1,533 2,237 0 0 0 7,220
Pla d'Urgell 0 10,425 11,740 0 14,963 0 37,128
Pla de l'Estany 1,409 4,038 6,764 0 19,343 0 31,554
Priorat 4,613 2,099 2,838 0 0 0 9,550
Ribera d'Ebre 820 9,542 6,985 5,578 0 0 22,925
Ripollès 2,740 3,042 9,167 0 10,751 0 25,700
Segarra 3,377 3,470 0 15,866 0 0 22,713
Segrià 2,991 18,052 27,301 22,248 0 139,176 209,768
Selva 938 4,275 23,423 51,095 90,518 0 170,249
Solsonès 2,535 1,895 0 9,067 0 0 13,497
Tarragonès 558 5,717 29,208 18,668 63,956 132,199 250,306
Terra Alta 1,259 7,769 3,091 0 0 0 12,119
Urgell 2,102 7,366 4,956 5,515 16,587 0 36,526
Val d'Aran 629 3,890 0 5,474 0 0 9,993
Vallès Occidental 202 726 4,417 39,337 213,016 641,834 899,532
Vallès Oriental 1,216 5,965 24,542 83,666 176,585 111,649 403,623
Catalonia 81,652 266,994 446,549 618,469 2,060,002 4,045,237 7,518,903
Metropolità 1,418 10,445 63,230 228,913 1,040,120 3,430,435 4,774,561
Comarques Gironines 20,798 69,320 92,366 84,943 377,070 97,227 741,724
Camp de Tarragona 12,113 34,055 48,753 49,349 133,975 237,161 515,406
Terres de l'Ebre 2,879 24,874 31,976 43,602 81,963 0 185,294
Ponent 16,827 55,278 56,240 49,717 48,035 139,176 365,273
Comarques Centrals 12,447 28,145 75,546 98,028 103,373 75,297 392,836
Alt Pirineu i Aran 11,728 19,281 9,642 20,540 12,366 0 73,557
Penedès 3,442 25,596 68,796 43,377 263,100 65,941 470,252
Barcelona 14,191 60,207 188,425 355,736 1,333,552 3,571,673 5,523,784
Girona 23,211 72,578 92,366 93,704 377,070 97,227 756,156
Lleida 29,258 72,721 65,882 70,563 60,401 139,176 438,001
Tarragona 14,992 61,488 99,876 98,466 288,979 237,161 800,962
Source: Idescat. Municipal population register.

Last update: December 30, 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 "..".