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Population on 1 January. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces

Population on 1 January. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces 2007
Value Variation (%)
Alt Camp 42,227 3.8
Alt Empordà 126,514 5.5
Alt Penedès 98,630 3.6
Alt Urgell 21,016 1.8
Alta Ribagorça 4,060 2.0
Anoia 111,004 3.1
Aran 9,663 4.3
Bages 175,937 2.6
Baix Camp 176,543 4.4
Baix Ebre 78,363 3.4
Baix Empordà 124,063 3.9
Baix Llobregat 762,567 1.4
Baix Penedès 89,715 7.0
Barcelonès 2,202,323 0.6
Berguedà 40,372 1.4
Cerdanya 17,723 3.9
Conca de Barberà 20,397 1.8
Garraf 134,434 4.3
Garrigues 19,784 1.3
Garrotxa 53,210 2.0
Gironès 169,024 3.4
Lluçanès .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Maresme 410,525 2.3
Moianès .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Montsià 66,411 4.0
Noguera 37,935 1.4
Osona 146,459 2.0
Pallars Jussà 13,037 4.0
Pallars Sobirà 7,178 2.0
Pla d'Urgell 34,669 3.5
Pla de l'Estany 28,517 2.3
Priorat 9,684 0.4
Ribera d'Ebre 22,723 1.9
Ripollès 26,514 0.8
Segarra 21,612 1.5
Segrià 190,082 3.0
Selva 153,213 5.9
Solsonès 13,467 3.0
Tarragonès 226,879 5.1
Terra Alta 12,617 0.0
Urgell 35,054 2.6
Vallès Occidental 839,058 2.2
Vallès Oriental 373,531 2.7
Catalunya 7,146,734 2.2
Metropolità 4,821,068 1.5
Comarques Gironines 681,055 4.1
Camp de Tarragona 565,445 4.9
Terres de l'Ebre 180,114 3.2
Ponent 339,136 2.6
Comarques Centrals 487,239 2.4
Alt Pirineu i Aran 72,677 3.0
Penedès .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Barcelona 5,294,659 1.6
Girona 695,361 4.1
Lleida 411,154 2.6
Tarragona 745,560 4.4
Source: Idescat. Population Estimates.
Notes:
The new county of El Moianès was created on 1 May 2015 (Law 4/2015, of 23 April, on the creation of the county of El Moianès) from the aggregation of five municipalities of the county of El Bages, one from the county of Osona and four from the county of El Vallès Oriental.
From March 2014 onwards, eight municipalities in L'Anoia will change designation and will belong to El Penedès region of the Central Counties (The GOV/21/2014).
Law 23/2010, of July 22, on the creation of the area of Penedès, divides Catalonia into eight territorial planning areas.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.

Last update: March 28, 2017. Revised series on July 11, 2023.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Intercensal population estimates
Calculation of the population by sex and age that connects two censuses. Intercensal estimates replace postcensal once you have the results of a new census of population, and provide final series of population between two censuses.
Postcensal population estimates
Calculation of the population by sex and age in the years after the last census. The postcensal estimates provide the series of population from the last census available, that are calculated adding the natural movement and migration that are recorded annually.

Methodological aspects

A partir de 2021 la font d’informació és el cens de població.

El Cens de població té periodicitat anual a partir de l’any 2021 i s'elabora mitjançant la combinació de registres administratius, on el Padró d'habitants n'és l'element bàsic. En l’elaboració del Cens de població s'apliquen tractaments i procediments estadístics que inclouen contrastos amb altres fonts i permeten oferir un recompte estadístic més acurat de la població i de les seves característiques que el Padró d'habitants.

The Population Estimates are statistical operations produced annually that provide a headcount of the resident population within Catalonia and its distribution by sex and age. The time reference for the postcensal population estimates is 1st January.

The postcensal population estimates are calculated based on the last available census and the demographic shifts from the corresponding year (birth, death and migration). The information they provide enable us to find out the levels of demographic growth and the shift in the population pyramid on a yearly basis. It also enables us to reliably calculate the demographic, social and economic indicators in which the population groups are the reference denominator, especially when these denominators must be disaggregated according to the features of sex and age.

The early postcensal estimates aim to provide a statistical estimation of the population classified by sex and age as early as possible with respect to the reference date. They are calculated in the second quarter of the year based on the provisional data for demographic flows. The results are kept updated until replaced by the Definitive Post-Census Estimates, calculated once figures for births, deaths and migrations are available for the year of reference.

By taking a new population census tally, the annual figures of the population estimates can be revised in the interim between two censuses, and from this the intercensal population estimates are generated. The production of intercensal estimates, then, consists of retroactively correcting the postcensal population estimates with the aid of the data from the new census. The level of disaggregation of the data is the same as for the postcensal estimates.

You can get more information about these statistics in the methodology.