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Immigrations and emigrations. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces

External migrations. Immigrations. On the continent of origin. Counties, areas and provinces 2004
Rest of EU Rest of Europe Africa America Asia Oceania Not stated Total
Alt Camp 44 140 192 146 23 0 41 586
Alt Empordà 1,125 643 814 1,068 77 0 281 4,008
Alt Penedès 105 212 619 468 78 0 109 1,591
Alt Urgell 111 201 23 149 13 0 35 532
Alta Ribagorça 10 91 17 15 1 0 0 134
Anoia 92 285 458 303 44 1 25 1,208
Bages 97 506 841 546 90 6 48 2,134
Baix Camp 427 1,044 866 1,201 158 1 371 4,068
Baix Ebre 399 937 515 240 240 1 9 2,341
Baix Empordà 626 703 882 752 93 3 182 3,241
Baix Llobregat 1,111 1,121 1,254 3,518 465 10 2,866 10,345
Baix Penedès 194 253 495 474 47 0 97 1,560
Barcelonès 792 1,134 1,368 5,820 3,361 6 51,153 63,634
Berguedà 24 145 136 105 24 0 21 455
Cerdanya 82 92 37 334 0 0 25 570
Conca de Barberà 8 137 33 44 5 0 57 284
Garraf 230 158 99 402 31 0 1,942 2,862
Garrigues 1 261 92 21 12 0 42 429
Garrotxa 63 143 209 135 228 0 22 800
Gironès 338 715 1,390 1,444 112 2 169 4,170
Maresme 634 619 2,127 2,296 530 6 280 6,492
Montsià 120 807 110 197 53 0 511 1,798
Noguera 8 215 65 116 4 0 637 1,045
Osona 94 261 1,215 417 112 0 61 2,160
Pallars Jussà 5 20 51 25 0 0 1 102
Pallars Sobirà 8 31 7 68 1 0 27 142
Pla d'Urgell 16 247 164 61 22 0 589 1,099
Pla de l'Estany 20 82 195 90 48 0 40 475
Priorat 18 38 6 16 5 0 65 148
Ribera d'Ebre 171 206 44 35 14 6 60 536
Ripollès 14 64 91 95 5 0 12 281
Segarra 9 640 291 89 4 0 31 1,064
Segrià 104 1,470 2,148 1,085 195 1 300 5,303
Selva 436 780 450 783 254 0 1,478 4,181
Solsonès 9 69 115 55 6 0 4 258
Tarragonès 317 636 587 774 157 4 3,157 5,632
Terra Alta 32 209 1 42 7 0 16 307
Urgell 14 317 360 116 23 0 9 839
Val d'Aran 25 103 52 85 5 0 32 302
Vallès Occidental 837 1,315 1,540 4,170 641 11 3,025 11,539
Vallès Oriental 310 697 1,885 2,053 218 5 308 5,476
Catalonia 9,080 17,747 21,844 29,853 7,406 63 68,138 154,131
Metropolità 4,019 5,256 8,892 18,727 5,324 38 59,683 101,939
Comarques Gironines 2,622 3,130 4,031 4,367 817 5 2,184 17,156
Camp de Tarragona 1,008 2,248 2,179 2,655 395 5 3,788 12,278
Terres de l'Ebre 722 2,159 670 514 314 7 596 4,982
Ponent 152 3,150 3,120 1,488 260 1 1,608 9,779
Comarques Centrals 316 1,266 2,765 1,426 276 7 159 6,215
Alt Pirineu i Aran 241 538 187 676 20 0 120 1,782
Barcelona 4,327 6,451 11,536 20,095 5,593 45 59,837 107,884
Girona 2,682 3,216 4,063 4,683 818 5 2,209 17,676
Lleida 341 3,673 3,396 1,906 286 1 1,708 11,311
Tarragona 1,730 4,407 2,849 3,169 709 12 4,384 17,260
Source: Idescat, based on the INE's Residential Variation Statistics.

Last update: September 20, 2012.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

External emigration
Change of residence when the municipality of destination is abroad and the municipality of origin is any of the municipalities of Catalonia. External immigration includes people leaving to abroad both of Spanish and foreign nationality.
External migration
Change of residence when the municipality of origin is abroad and the destination is any of the municipalities of Catalonia. External immigration includes the arrival of people coming from abroad both of Spanish and foreign nationality.
International migration
Change of residence between a municipality in Catalonia and abroad.

Methodological aspects

Residential Variation Statistics (RVS) are compiled by the INE from information regarding registrations and delistings due to changes of residence registered in the Municipal Registers, with variation dates from the reference year.

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.

Yearly residential variation statistics do not refer to the number of people changing residence, but rather to the number of changes made, as a citizen may change residence from one municipality to another more than once a year.

Exterior immigration data is compiled exclusively from municipal registrations of people who have arrived from abroad. Exterior immigration data for the years 2001, 2002 and 2003 have not been published due to a lack of exhaustive data (these population flows tended to be incorporated directly into the Continuous Municipal Register as entries lacking previous registrations). Exterior immigration flow is published again from 2004 onwards as the total number of movements was reasonably exhaustive, even though there is an elevated number of cases where the destination country information is missing.

The external emigration series begins in 2005, the year in which the data, once analysed, is more consistent, even though there is still a large number of cases missing the destination country information.

From 2006 onwards, delistings from the Municipal Register due to expiry are included. These delistings are included as a result of the legislative change to the 7/1985 Organic Law, which regulates Local Ordinances, introduced in the 14/2003 Law on Foreign Nationals, which states that foreigners from outside the European Union must renew their registration on the Municipal Register every two years. If they do not renew, city councils must declare their registration as expired.

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