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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 2005
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 3,261 9,500 4,405 0 22,851 0 40,017
Alt Empordà 8,647 23,544 14,862 17,478 54,419 0 118,950
Alt Penedès 1,208 18,616 14,778 11,583 47,223 0 93,408
Alt Urgell 2,526 6,093 0 12,317 0 0 20,936
Alta Ribagorça 0 1,697 2,307 0 0 0 4,004
Anoia 2,961 9,510 11,330 21,857 59,718 0 105,376
Bages 2,251 8,580 22,230 55,646 10,064 70,343 169,114
Baix Camp 1,649 13,698 7,161 19,667 26,209 99,505 167,889
Baix Ebre 360 4,439 11,845 13,670 44,648 0 74,962
Baix Empordà 4,462 10,067 10,304 27,597 67,872 0 120,302
Baix Llobregat 0 1,370 17,993 35,933 356,255 346,263 757,814
Baix Penedès 957 6,582 14,281 9,017 49,130 0 79,967
Barcelonès 0 0 0 0 32,940 2,182,641 2,215,581
Berguedà 3,260 7,086 13,225 0 16,175 0 39,746
Cerdanya 3,026 4,991 0 8,845 0 0 16,862
Conca de Barberà 3,496 3,124 13,437 0 0 0 20,057
Garraf 0 0 5,306 0 61,195 61,427 127,928
Garrigues 4,109 4,640 5,706 5,519 0 0 19,974
Garrotxa 2,316 10,741 7,458 0 31,271 0 51,786
Gironès 1,884 8,071 21,465 15,376 27,370 86,672 160,838
Maresme 315 1,095 25,531 78,630 176,233 116,698 398,502
Montsià 406 3,302 6,968 21,605 31,900 0 64,181
Noguera 5,163 11,047 6,074 0 15,281 0 37,565
Osona 4,885 11,569 30,976 24,586 70,321 0 142,337
Pallars Jussà 2,356 1,881 3,043 5,286 0 0 12,566
Pallars Sobirà 3,366 1,404 2,113 0 0 0 6,883
Pla d'Urgell 0 11,829 9,447 0 11,829 0 33,105
Pla de l'Estany 1,295 3,595 6,077 0 16,938 0 27,905
Priorat 4,899 2,108 2,658 0 0 0 9,665
Ribera d'Ebre 1,367 9,303 7,243 5,012 0 0 22,925
Ripollès 2,880 1,215 11,543 0 10,762 0 26,400
Segarra 3,097 4,083 4,874 8,942 0 0 20,996
Segrià 3,137 18,605 26,206 11,297 0 124,709 183,954
Selva 875 7,025 21,031 38,776 76,713 0 144,420
Solsonès 2,609 1,584 0 8,571 0 0 12,764
Tarragonès 1,258 6,133 22,075 5,608 49,294 128,152 212,520
Terra Alta 942 6,660 5,122 0 0 0 12,724
Urgell 2,770 6,806 4,376 5,355 14,810 0 34,117
Val d'Aran 636 3,563 0 5,020 0 0 9,219
Vallès Occidental 210 2,055 6,821 28,272 190,622 587,648 815,628
Vallès Oriental 1,421 10,159 23,134 72,334 145,257 109,014 361,319
Catalonia 90,260 277,370 423,405 573,799 1,717,300 3,913,072 6,995,206
Metropolità 3,154 33,295 93,563 226,752 1,009,725 3,403,691 4,770,180
Comarques Gironines 22,359 64,258 92,740 99,227 285,345 86,672 650,601
Camp de Tarragona 15,520 41,145 64,017 34,292 147,484 227,657 530,115
Terres de l'Ebre 3,075 23,704 31,178 40,287 76,548 0 174,792
Ponent 18,276 57,010 56,683 31,113 41,920 124,709 329,711
Comarques Centrals 15,966 38,329 77,761 110,660 156,278 70,343 469,337
Alt Pirineu i Aran 11,910 19,629 7,463 31,468 0 0 70,470
Barcelona 15,923 70,229 171,324 328,841 1,166,003 3,474,034 5,226,354
Girona 24,967 66,710 92,740 108,072 285,345 86,672 664,506
Lleida 30,775 75,582 64,146 49,990 54,237 124,709 399,439
Tarragona 18,595 64,849 88,563 81,211 224,032 227,657 704,907
Source: Idescat. Municipal population register.

Last update: June 18, 2009.

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 "..".