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Spending by county and region

Where the spenders are seated, how much that comes to per person, and where the work is done.

2018–2026, all years · Agriculture and food

The county is the one of the authority's seat, so Bucharest also gathers the spending of ministries and national companies. Spending per person and place of performance show what lies beyond the seat.

Map of public spending by county Political map of Romania showing its 41 counties and the municipality of Bucharest, shaded by reported public spending. ALBA — 280.84 Mn. ARAD — 542.79 Mn. ARGEȘ — 282.29 Mn. BACĂU — 376.30 Mn. BIHOR — 491.89 Mn. BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD — 296.87 Mn. BOTOȘANI — 307.17 Mn. BRĂILA — 144.07 Mn. BRAȘOV — 830.26 Mn. BUCUREȘTI — 10.86 Bn. BUZĂU — 303.87 Mn. CĂLĂRAȘI — 131.34 Mn. CARAȘ-SEVERIN — 138.55 Mn. CLUJ — 955.64 Mn. CONSTANȚA — 625.32 Mn. COVASNA — 199.93 Mn. DÂMBOVIȚA — 232.53 Mn. DOLJ — 469.46 Mn. GALAȚI — 321.88 Mn. GIURGIU — 116.07 Mn. GORJ — 174.08 Mn. HARGHITA — 252.75 Mn. HUNEDOARA — 378.71 Mn. IALOMIȚA — 113.48 Mn. IAȘI — 566.18 Mn. ILFOV — 357.26 Mn. MARAMUREȘ — 300.44 Mn. MEHEDINȚI — 141.03 Mn. MUREȘ — 398.20 Mn. NEAMȚ — 416.65 Mn. OLT — 307.44 Mn. PRAHOVA — 528.79 Mn. SĂLAJ — 151.07 Mn. SATU MARE — 259.32 Mn. SIBIU — 350.78 Mn. SUCEAVA — 482.39 Mn. TELEORMAN — 133.82 Mn. TIMIȘ — 685.77 Mn. TULCEA — 162.37 Mn. VÂLCEA — 240.54 Mn. VASLUI — 249.51 Mn. VRANCEA — 188.36 Mn.
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By development region

NUTS 2 regions are the sum of their counties.

  • The period is not over: the data runs to September 2026, and the figures will grow with the next update.
  • 2018 is incomplete: direct purchases appear in the data only from April.
  • Late December 2023 is missing from the data (29–31 December and part of 22 December).

The largest authorities in SĂLAJ

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# Contracting authority Direct Offline Tenders Total
1 JUDETUL SALAJ 30,460,262 70,098 1,033,904,412 1,064,434,772
2 MUNICIPIUL ZALAU 6,039,494 26,270,291 537,320,361 569,630,146
3 ORASUL SIMLEU SILVANIEI 68,332,706 79,200 285,779,706 354,191,612
4 SPITALUL JUDETEAN DE URGENTA ZALAU 96,222,854 1,730 210,974,321 307,198,905
5 ORASUL JIBOU 25,245,253 2,451,891 163,600,555 191,297,699
6 DIRECTIA GENERALA DE ASISTENTA SOCIALA SI PROTECTIA COPILULUI SALAJ 47,695,381 — 105,377,288 153,072,669
7 COMUNA SARMASAG 29,640,375 2,655,244 65,355,578 97,651,197
8 ASOCIATIA REGIONALA PENTRU DEZVOLTAREA INFRASTRUCTURII DIN BAZINUL HIDROGRAFIC SOMES-TISA 2,120,990 30,000 86,527,319 88,678,309
9 DIRECTIA SANITARA VETERINARA SI PENTRU SIGURANTA ALIMENTELOR SALAJ 7,821,475 — 78,479,386 86,300,861
10 COMUNA CREACA 22,104,763 403,242 61,680,039 84,188,044
11 COMUNA CHIESD 16,851,504 14,300 66,985,866 83,851,670
12 CITADIN ZALAU SRL 24,849,374 673,670 55,953,635 81,476,679
13 ORASUL CEHU SILVANIEI 22,641,675 1,922,462 48,961,108 73,525,245
14 COMUNA CRISENI 21,538,477 — 47,099,747 68,638,224
15 COMUNA PERICEI 17,058,634 2,309,791 48,469,558 67,837,983

The list follows the period, not the contract type or the CPV code.

Stream amounts lead to the purchases they were added up from. Direct purchases and offline purchases give the exact amount. For tenders, the notices of the period open, by main CPV code: the amount in the table is the contracts', dated at signature and split across lots.

Direct
Direct purchases from the electronic catalogue.
Offline
Offline purchases: direct purchases made outside the catalogue.
Tenders
Tender contracts.
Total
The three streams added up: everything the authority spent in the chosen period. The list is ordered by this column.

How it is computed

County
The county is the one of the authority's seat, from the trade register. That is why Bucharest looks so large: ministries and national companies, which buy for the whole country, are seated there.
Population
Spend per person divides the amount by the resident population on 1 January of the chosen year. Over all years the amount is cumulative and divided by the latest year's population.
Development regions
The eight NUTS 2 regions are the sum of their counties.
Place of performance
Each tender lot has a place of performance. The table compares the money spent by the authorities seated in a county with the money for work performed there; money declared at regional or national level has no county and is counted separately.

Every county

County Region Population Direct purchases Offline purchases Tenders Total Lei per person Share
BUCUREȘTI Bucharest-Ilfov 1,713,832 713,888,364 138,466,927 10,003,163,434 10,855,518,725 6,334 43.9%
CLUJ North-West 701,564 309,976,384 22,034,293 623,633,875 955,644,552 1,362 3.9%
BRAȘOV Centre 564,632 216,880,332 8,675,030 604,704,315 830,259,677 1,470 3.4%
TIMIȘ West 672,972 249,881,941 15,585,975 420,298,299 685,766,215 1,019 2.8%
CONSTANȚA South-East 656,512 203,401,894 23,538,179 398,382,926 625,322,999 952 2.5%
IAȘI North-East 781,948 257,058,885 14,331,357 294,789,918 566,180,160 724 2.3%
ARAD West 410,058 141,955,324 8,567,419 392,268,347 542,791,090 1,324 2.2%
PRAHOVA South-Muntenia 683,460 191,822,372 7,414,077 329,550,658 528,787,107 774 2.1%
BIHOR North-West 558,623 209,582,739 16,856,139 265,453,519 491,892,397 881 2.0%
SUCEAVA North-East 648,164 228,437,932 9,468,523 244,485,839 482,392,294 744 2.0%
DOLJ South-West Oltenia 594,523 184,612,198 6,147,404 278,700,394 469,459,996 790 1.9%
NEAMȚ North-East 444,666 122,154,420 5,164,866 289,329,928 416,649,214 937 1.7%
MUREȘ Centre 519,813 210,297,122 12,540,286 175,363,835 398,201,243 766 1.6%
HUNEDOARA West 349,011 142,321,927 4,465,808 231,921,199 378,708,934 1,085 1.5%
BACĂU North-East 590,169 167,895,030 11,413,398 196,996,140 376,304,568 638 1.5%
ILFOV Bucharest-Ilfov 619,461 122,070,265 12,308,901 222,876,442 357,255,608 577 1.4%
SIBIU Centre 396,679 160,886,724 16,998,972 172,891,997 350,777,693 884 1.4%
GALAȚI South-East 486,387 165,338,068 7,601,668 148,935,999 321,875,735 662 1.3%
OLT South-West Oltenia 372,181 94,904,985 1,629,279 210,908,950 307,443,214 826 1.2%
BOTOȘANI North-East 386,529 118,849,695 2,718,365 185,605,044 307,173,104 795 1.2%
BUZĂU South-East 393,136 135,278,378 6,062,830 162,530,818 303,872,026 773 1.2%
MARAMUREȘ North-West 451,086 116,792,137 18,205,700 165,443,458 300,441,295 666 1.2%
BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD North-West 298,129 198,017,666 5,103,276 93,745,674 296,866,616 996 1.2%
ARGEȘ South-Muntenia 561,864 126,205,110 5,806,174 150,283,286 282,294,570 502 1.1%
ALBA Centre 324,901 126,034,548 10,857,467 143,949,084 280,841,099 864 1.1%
SATU MARE North-West 330,046 64,519,869 10,032,027 184,764,362 259,316,258 786 1.1%
HARGHITA Centre 292,267 162,961,037 10,104,502 79,683,706 252,749,245 865 1.0%
VASLUI North-East 363,247 91,465,349 9,510,302 148,529,871 249,505,522 687 1.0%
VÂLCEA South-West Oltenia 337,988 93,673,052 10,194,315 136,672,020 240,539,387 712 1.0%
DÂMBOVIȚA South-Muntenia 475,812 110,051,082 5,823,143 116,651,793 232,526,018 489 0.9%
COVASNA Centre 199,596 141,438,051 3,532,416 54,954,958 199,925,425 1,002 0.8%
VRANCEA South-East 330,157 113,161,257 3,000,182 72,198,794 188,360,233 571 0.8%
GORJ South-West Oltenia 306,938 95,818,316 3,774,248 74,485,821 174,078,385 567 0.7%
TULCEA South-East 186,131 77,083,041 2,192,920 83,098,744 162,374,705 872 0.7%
SĂLAJ North-West 210,335 63,794,145 2,326,943 84,950,660 151,071,748 718 0.6%
BRĂILA South-East 269,804 82,459,288 2,783,157 58,823,785 144,066,230 534 0.6%
MEHEDINȚI South-West Oltenia 226,429 46,798,296 1,812,070 92,419,367 141,029,733 623 0.6%
CARAȘ-SEVERIN West 240,283 82,738,743 2,474,331 53,335,427 138,548,501 577 0.6%
TELEORMAN South-Muntenia 308,440 71,743,301 1,269,230 60,810,914 133,823,445 434 0.5%
CĂLĂRAȘI South-Muntenia 277,347 91,588,043 2,591,465 37,162,321 131,341,829 474 0.5%
GIURGIU South-Muntenia 258,793 57,845,453 1,357,801 56,871,146 116,074,400 449 0.5%
IALOMIȚA South-Muntenia 247,409 56,957,941 2,768,853 53,751,877 113,478,671 459 0.5%

Per person: all years added up, against the resident population on 1 January 2026.

Stream amounts lead to the purchases they were added up from. Direct purchases and offline purchases give the exact amount. For tenders, the notices of the period open, by main CPV code: the amount in the table is the contracts', dated at signature and split across lots.

County
The county of the authority's seat. The name opens the county's largest authorities.
Region
The development region (NUTS 2) the county belongs to.
Population
Resident population on 1 January.
Direct purchases
Direct purchases from the electronic catalogue.
Offline purchases
Offline purchases: direct purchases made outside the catalogue.
Tenders
Tender contracts.
Total
The three streams added up: all the county's authorities spent.
Lei per person
The total divided by the population. The only column that compares counties of different size.
Share
The county's part of the national total for the chosen filters.

Where it is spent and where it is performed: tenders

Tender money, once by the seat of the authority that spent it and once by the county where the lot is performed. A positive difference means more is performed in the county than its authorities spend.

County Spent by the county's authorities Performed in the county Difference
BUCUREȘTI 10,003,163,455 6,228,279,925 −3,774,883,530
SUCEAVA 244,485,842 781,985,654 +537,499,812
BRAȘOV 604,704,313 684,570,684 +79,866,371
CLUJ 623,633,869 671,699,352 +48,065,483
TIMIȘ 420,298,300 511,558,488 +91,260,188
PRAHOVA 329,550,648 424,183,790 +94,633,142
ARAD 392,268,351 415,345,025 +23,076,674
CONSTANȚA 398,382,926 405,565,275 +7,182,349
NEAMȚ 289,329,923 399,956,098 +110,626,175
MUREȘ 175,363,834 362,340,098 +186,976,264
DOLJ 278,700,360 339,226,253 +60,525,893
BIHOR 265,453,512 326,838,511 +61,384,999
SIBIU 172,891,991 317,969,242 +145,077,251
BACĂU 196,996,144 313,330,371 +116,334,227
IAȘI 294,789,914 311,706,374 +16,916,460
HUNEDOARA 231,921,189 279,940,837 +48,019,648
OLT 210,908,951 270,384,518 +59,475,567
ILFOV 222,867,226 242,298,052 +19,430,826
MARAMUREȘ 165,443,456 229,481,679 +64,038,223
ARGEȘ 150,283,300 209,444,588 +59,161,288
BOTOȘANI 185,605,025 200,505,464 +14,900,439
SATU MARE 184,764,354 191,245,342 +6,480,988
GALAȚI 148,935,996 186,439,334 +37,503,338
CARAȘ-SEVERIN 53,335,426 182,300,147 +128,964,721
BUZĂU 162,530,819 173,579,677 +11,048,858
TULCEA 83,098,726 170,711,472 +87,612,746
ALBA 143,949,086 170,416,548 +26,467,462
VASLUI 148,529,878 166,353,900 +17,824,022
VÂLCEA 136,672,042 156,386,642 +19,714,600
DÂMBOVIȚA 116,651,799 133,011,185 +16,359,386
HARGHITA 79,683,702 127,171,354 +47,487,652
MEHEDINȚI 92,419,366 119,724,374 +27,305,008
BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD 93,745,671 102,707,323 +8,961,652
VRANCEA 72,198,798 99,985,896 +27,787,098
GIURGIU 56,871,146 94,408,625 +37,537,479
COVASNA 54,954,957 91,971,512 +37,016,555
SĂLAJ 84,950,665 90,812,420 +5,861,755
TELEORMAN 60,810,918 87,067,531 +26,256,613
GORJ 74,485,824 86,765,211 +12,279,387
BRĂILA 58,823,781 66,306,342 +7,482,561
IALOMIȚA 53,751,877 57,759,142 +4,007,265
CĂLĂRAȘI 37,162,319 55,476,535 +18,314,216

Another 1.32 Bn. (7.4% of tender money) are declared at regional or national level or abroad, and have no county.

  • The period is not over: the data runs to September 2026, and the figures will grow with the next update.
  • 2018 is incomplete: direct purchases appear in the data only from April.
  • Late December 2023 is missing from the data (29–31 December and part of 22 December).
Spent by the county's authorities
Tender money spent by the authorities seated in the county, wherever the lot is performed.
Performed in the county
Tender money for lots performed in the county, whoever bought them. Money declared at regional or national level has no county and is counted separately, under the table.
Difference
Performed minus spent. Positive: more is performed in the county than its authorities spend, usually through national investment. Negative: its authorities buy work performed elsewhere.

The same data, through the API

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  • /api/v1/stats/dimensions
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  • /api/v1/stats/breakdown
  • /api/v1/stats/lots
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