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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 2007
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 2,641 9,221 6,776 0 23,948 0 42,586
Alt Empordà 7,095 26,914 10,743 14,523 69,883 0 129,158
Alt Penedès 815 14,429 22,556 12,610 48,446 0 98,856
Alt Urgell 2,536 6,327 0 0 12,703 0 21,566
Alta Ribagorça 0 1,705 2,418 0 0 0 4,123
Anoia 3,096 8,344 14,474 22,958 62,783 0 111,655
Bages 2,341 9,345 18,473 63,073 10,474 73,140 176,846
Baix Camp 1,232 15,585 7,571 11,569 39,404 104,835 180,196
Baix Ebre 389 4,583 12,963 14,760 45,895 0 78,590
Baix Empordà 4,629 10,389 11,173 19,359 80,900 0 126,450
Baix Llobregat 0 1,576 19,175 28,054 374,171 348,540 771,516
Baix Penedès 0 4,268 15,247 5,063 66,313 0 90,891
Barcelonès 0 0 0 0 32,734 2,179,924 2,212,658
Berguedà 3,262 7,183 13,438 0 16,596 0 40,479
Cerdanya 3,220 3,561 2,014 8,949 0 0 17,744
Conca de Barberà 3,038 3,909 6,949 6,818 0 0 20,714
Garraf 0 0 6,625 0 66,507 63,196 136,328
Garrigues 4,027 4,565 5,653 5,734 0 0 19,979
Garrotxa 2,347 11,181 7,642 0 32,337 0 53,507
Gironès 1,509 8,980 22,968 16,308 27,673 92,186 169,624
Maresme 487 1,193 22,597 88,004 182,765 119,035 414,081
Montsià 451 3,434 7,239 22,643 34,067 0 67,834
Noguera 3,589 12,807 6,419 0 15,781 0 38,596
Osona 4,480 10,356 34,419 26,022 71,861 0 147,138
Pallars Jussà 2,411 1,945 3,089 6,022 0 0 13,467
Pallars Sobirà 3,450 1,477 2,264 0 0 0 7,191
Pla d'Urgell 0 12,176 9,714 0 13,086 0 34,976
Pla de l'Estany 1,365 3,763 6,314 0 17,451 0 28,893
Priorat 4,850 2,193 2,742 0 0 0 9,785
Ribera d'Ebre 899 9,993 7,195 5,232 0 0 23,319
Ripollès 2,837 1,250 11,622 0 10,867 0 26,576
Segarra 3,155 4,202 0 14,346 0 0 21,703
Segrià 2,641 19,800 22,514 18,289 0 127,314 190,558
Selva 863 7,847 22,438 42,071 84,455 0 157,674
Solsonès 2,645 1,756 0 9,000 0 0 13,401
Tarragonès 1,373 7,177 20,079 11,769 56,600 134,163 231,161
Terra Alta 1,393 6,174 5,152 0 0 0 12,719
Urgell 2,705 6,785 10,010 0 15,515 0 35,015
Val d'Aran 655 3,775 0 5,385 0 0 9,815
Vallès Occidental 224 2,345 2,313 35,257 199,358 606,445 845,942
Vallès Oriental 1,502 4,681 26,635 81,572 152,589 110,219 377,198
Catalonia 84,152 277,194 429,613 595,390 1,865,162 3,958,997 7,210,508
Metropolità 3,028 24,224 99,901 245,497 1,056,570 3,427,359 4,856,579
Comarques Gironines 20,645 70,324 92,900 92,261 323,566 92,186 691,882
Camp de Tarragona 13,134 42,353 59,364 35,219 186,265 238,998 575,333
Terres de l'Ebre 3,132 24,184 32,549 42,635 79,962 0 182,462
Ponent 16,117 60,335 54,310 38,369 44,382 127,314 340,827
Comarques Centrals 15,824 36,984 80,804 121,053 161,714 73,140 489,519
Alt Pirineu i Aran 12,272 18,790 9,785 20,356 12,703 0 73,906
Barcelona 15,622 59,853 180,705 357,550 1,218,284 3,500,499 5,332,513
Girona 23,436 72,887 92,900 101,210 323,566 92,186 706,185
Lleida 28,828 77,917 58,661 64,210 57,085 127,314 414,015
Tarragona 16,266 66,537 86,816 82,951 266,227 238,998 757,795
Source: Idescat. Municipal population register.

Last update: July 2, 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 "..".