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Immigrations, emigrations and net migrations rate. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces

Internal migrations. Immigrations. By place of origin. Counties, areas and provinces 2004
Within the cou/ /area/prov. From the rest of Catalonia From the rest of Spain
Alt Camp 484 1,336 255
Alt Empordà 2,765 2,445 1,141
Alt Penedès 1,909 3,664 557
Alt Urgell 277 443 296
Alta Ribagorça 26 151 65
Anoia 2,010 4,197 566
Bages 2,918 3,776 808
Baix Camp 2,605 3,931 1,740
Baix Ebre 762 1,358 740
Baix Empordà 2,357 2,979 948
Baix Llobregat 13,847 19,538 4,920
Baix Penedès 1,701 6,809 690
Barcelonès 24,567 25,408 17,240
Berguedà 516 924 154
Cerdanya 241 604 204
Conca de Barberà 186 598 150
Garraf 2,445 4,997 1,141
Garrigues 89 455 95
Garrotxa 638 1,060 297
Gironès 3,564 4,403 1,512
Maresme 8,658 11,656 2,218
Montsià 505 1,038 887
Noguera 380 903 250
Osona 3,025 2,685 784
Pallars Jussà 60 248 53
Pallars Sobirà 94 278 93
Pla d'Urgell 429 854 256
Pla de l'Estany 427 630 126
Priorat 43 257 37
Ribera d'Ebre 201 342 80
Ripollès 269 545 79
Segarra 171 571 156
Segrià 2,587 2,590 2,717
Selva 1,551 6,456 1,239
Solsonès 109 382 101
Tarragonès 2,920 5,824 2,636
Terra Alta 31 153 57
Urgell 265 998 278
Val d'Aran 114 222 241
Vallès Occidental 13,941 18,410 4,878
Vallès Oriental 9,632 10,703 1,932
Catalonia z Category not applicable z Category not applicable 52,617
Metropolità 152,218 17,157 32,886
Comarques Gironines 17,762 12,327 5,342
Camp de Tarragona 12,889 13,805 5,508
Terres de l'Ebre 2,189 2,201 1,764
Ponent 6,458 3,834 3,752
Comarques Centrals 9,507 11,035 2,413
Alt Pirineu i Aran 977 1,781 952
Barcelona 174,705 14,822 35,200
Girona 18,015 12,646 5,520
Lleida 8,003 4,865 4,625
Tarragona 16,166 14,918 7,272
Source: Idescat, based on the INE's Residential Variation Statistics.
(z) Category not applicable.
Internal migrations. Emmigrations. By destination. Counties, areas and provinces 2004
Within the cou/ /area/prov. From the rest of Catalonia From the rest of Spain
Alt Camp 484 786 249
Alt Empordà 2,765 1,675 831
Alt Penedès 1,909 1,844 592
Alt Urgell 277 409 217
Alta Ribagorça 26 93 66
Anoia 2,010 2,054 670
Bages 2,918 2,105 793
Baix Camp 2,605 2,899 1,327
Baix Ebre 762 1,028 496
Baix Empordà 2,357 2,370 799
Baix Llobregat 13,847 18,818 6,085
Baix Penedès 1,701 2,665 673
Barcelonès 24,567 61,080 19,935
Berguedà 516 698 100
Cerdanya 241 447 176
Conca de Barberà 186 460 73
Garraf 2,445 3,129 1,094
Garrigues 89 484 101
Garrotxa 638 749 249
Gironès 3,564 3,431 1,113
Maresme 8,658 7,825 2,998
Montsià 505 764 682
Noguera 380 842 284
Osona 3,025 1,746 607
Pallars Jussà 60 306 147
Pallars Sobirà 94 217 102
Pla d'Urgell 429 710 280
Pla de l'Estany 427 457 122
Priorat 43 243 45
Ribera d'Ebre 201 500 109
Ripollès 269 543 86
Segarra 171 721 213
Segrià 2,587 2,576 2,251
Selva 1,551 3,632 1,189
Solsonès 109 243 58
Tarragonès 2,920 3,807 1,979
Terra Alta 31 170 65
Urgell 265 958 304
Val d'Aran 114 238 246
Vallès Occidental 13,941 13,686 5,674
Vallès Oriental 9,632 7,413 2,525
Catalonia z Category not applicable z Category not applicable 55,605
Metropolità 152,218 36,576 38,903
Comarques Gironines 17,762 6,666 4,389
Camp de Tarragona 12,889 5,910 4,346
Terres de l'Ebre 2,189 1,772 1,352
Ponent 6,458 3,754 3,433
Comarques Centrals 9,507 5,917 2,228
Alt Pirineu i Aran 977 1,545 954
Barcelona 174,705 29,175 41,074
Girona 18,015 6,936 4,550
Lleida 8,003 4,546 4,283
Tarragona 16,166 6,594 5,698
Source: Idescat, based on the INE's Residential Variation Statistics.
(z) Category not applicable.
Internal migrations. Net migrations rate. Counties, areas and provinces 2004
With the rest of Catalonia With the rest of Spain Total net rate
Alt Camp 550 6 556
Alt Empordà 770 310 1,080
Alt Penedès 1,820 -35 1,785
Alt Urgell 34 79 113
Alta Ribagorça 58 -1 57
Anoia 2,143 -104 2,039
Bages 1,671 15 1,686
Baix Camp 1,032 413 1,445
Baix Ebre 330 244 574
Baix Empordà 609 149 758
Baix Llobregat 720 -1,165 -445
Baix Penedès 4,144 17 4,161
Barcelonès -35,672 -2,695 -38,367
Berguedà 226 54 280
Cerdanya 157 28 185
Conca de Barberà 138 77 215
Garraf 1,868 47 1,915
Garrigues -29 -6 -35
Garrotxa 311 48 359
Gironès 972 399 1,371
Maresme 3,831 -780 3,051
Montsià 274 205 479
Noguera 61 -34 27
Osona 939 177 1,116
Pallars Jussà -58 -94 -152
Pallars Sobirà 61 -9 52
Pla d'Urgell 144 -24 120
Pla de l'Estany 173 4 177
Priorat 14 -8 6
Ribera d'Ebre -158 -29 -187
Ripollès 2 -7 -5
Segarra -150 -57 -207
Segrià 14 466 480
Selva 2,824 50 2,874
Solsonès 139 43 182
Tarragonès 2,017 657 2,674
Terra Alta -17 -8 -25
Urgell 40 -26 14
Val d'Aran -16 -5 -21
Vallès Occidental 4,724 -796 3,928
Vallès Oriental 3,290 -593 2,697
Catalonia z Category not applicable -2,988 -2,988
Metropolità -19,419 -6,017 -25,436
Comarques Gironines 5,661 953 6,614
Camp de Tarragona 7,895 1,162 9,057
Terres de l'Ebre 429 412 841
Ponent 80 319 399
Comarques Centrals 5,118 185 5,303
Alt Pirineu i Aran 236 -2 234
Barcelona .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available -14,353 -5,874
Girona .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 5,710 970
Lleida .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 319 342
Tarragona .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 8,324 1,574
Source: Idescat, based on the INE's Residential Variation Statistics.
(z) Category not applicable.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.

Last update: June 18, 2009.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Internal emigration
People removing their names from the civil registers of one municipality due to change of residence and moving to another municipality in Catalonia or elsewhere in Spain.
Internal immigration
People adding their names to the civil registers of one municipality due to change of residence and moving from another municipality in Catalonia or from elsewhere in Spain.
Internal migration
Change of residence between two municipalities of Catalonia, or between a municipality in Catalonia and another in Spain.
Internal migratory balance
Difference between the internal immigration recorded (registrations on the civil registers of inhabitants) and the internal emigration recorded (cancellations on the civil registers of inhabitants) for a defined period. The net migration rate is positive if immigration is greater than emigration and negative if emigration is higher than immigration.

Methodological aspects

The statistics Migratory Movements provides information on people's movement due to a change in residence from one municipality in Catalonia to another, whether in Catalonia, the rest of Spain or abroad. Idescat bases this operation on the additions and removals due to changes in residence registered in municipal registers, with variation dates from the reference year.

From the year 2022 the source is the Statistics on Migrations and Changes of Residence by INE, while from 1998 to 2021 the source was the Statistics on Residential Variations by INE. Migration balances and flows within Catalonia and with the rest of Spain are comparable with the previous series, but the flows of external migration are higher with the new source.

The main characteristics analysed are sex, age and nationality.

Migratory movement refers to the displacement of an individual due to a change in residence, as well as the characteristics of this migration. The information contained comprises only inter-municipal changes and, as such, changes in residence within the same municipality are excluded.

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