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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 Catalonia
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
2011 83,197 273,831 434,465 615,846 2,065,994 4,066,285 7,539,618
2010 82,608 278,789 425,120 603,899 2,053,598 4,068,367 7,512,381
2009 84,459 277,407 422,943 602,711 2,026,846 4,061,054 7,475,420
2008 84,878 273,848 431,323 580,840 1,978,074 4,015,115 7,364,078
2007 84,152 277,194 429,613 595,390 1,865,162 3,958,997 7,210,508
2006 88,916 271,268 413,330 593,788 1,809,918 3,957,477 7,134,697
2005 90,260 277,370 423,405 573,799 1,717,300 3,913,072 6,995,206
2004 88,175 289,908 407,858 555,015 1,627,828 3,844,535 6,813,319
2003 88,236 290,652 404,783 538,280 1,567,278 3,814,917 6,704,146
2002 89,668 286,444 399,273 508,974 1,612,293 3,609,788 6,506,440
2001 89,000 296,970 398,328 518,977 1,503,086 3,555,004 6,361,365
Source: Idescat. Municipal population register.

Last update: December 19, 2011.

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 "..".