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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 · CPV 03

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 — 58.62 Mn. ARAD — 217.90 Mn. ARGEȘ — 78.48 Mn. BACĂU — 100.30 Mn. BIHOR — 95.56 Mn. BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD — 56.40 Mn. BOTOȘANI — 85.10 Mn. BRĂILA — 42.91 Mn. BRAȘOV — 87.08 Mn. BUCUREȘTI — 462.55 Mn. BUZĂU — 78.59 Mn. CĂLĂRAȘI — 34.53 Mn. CARAȘ-SEVERIN — 33.58 Mn. CLUJ — 101.68 Mn. CONSTANȚA — 114.93 Mn. COVASNA — 50.15 Mn. DÂMBOVIȚA — 61.68 Mn. DOLJ — 147.49 Mn. GALAȚI — 82.98 Mn. GIURGIU — 27.99 Mn. GORJ — 48.54 Mn. HARGHITA — 72.96 Mn. HUNEDOARA — 64.69 Mn. IALOMIȚA — 32.76 Mn. IAȘI — 161.88 Mn. ILFOV — 31.07 Mn. MARAMUREȘ — 71.67 Mn. MEHEDINȚI — 40.41 Mn. MUREȘ — 67.20 Mn. NEAMȚ — 80.58 Mn. OLT — 70.00 Mn. PRAHOVA — 98.63 Mn. SĂLAJ — 27.54 Mn. SATU MARE — 38.84 Mn. SIBIU — 44.73 Mn. SUCEAVA — 120.08 Mn. TELEORMAN — 38.97 Mn. TIMIȘ — 108.44 Mn. TULCEA — 35.70 Mn. VÂLCEA — 75.76 Mn. VASLUI — 71.38 Mn. VRANCEA — 54.60 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).

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 1,713,832 123,165,259 23,177,421 316,205,623 462,548,303 270 13.3%
ARAD West 410,058 38,978,147 2,651,968 176,267,941 217,898,056 531 6.3%
IAȘI North-East 781,948 88,480,735 4,049,630 69,349,016 161,879,381 207 4.7%
DOLJ South-West Oltenia 594,523 75,468,497 1,768,939 70,256,640 147,494,076 248 4.2%
SUCEAVA North-East 648,164 81,270,380 2,225,825 36,586,104 120,082,309 185 3.5%
CONSTANȚA South-East 656,512 55,391,509 5,645,659 53,890,560 114,927,728 175 3.3%
TIMIȘ West 672,972 63,298,866 4,442,440 40,697,147 108,438,453 161 3.1%
CLUJ North-West 701,564 67,102,068 5,557,238 29,024,895 101,684,201 145 2.9%
BACĂU North-East 590,169 74,478,167 3,582,945 22,234,282 100,295,394 170 2.9%
PRAHOVA South-Muntenia 683,460 50,611,616 974,857 47,041,293 98,627,766 144 2.8%
BIHOR North-West 558,623 55,121,541 3,447,482 36,989,247 95,558,270 171 2.8%
BRAȘOV Centre 564,632 47,489,048 2,741,649 36,852,934 87,083,631 154 2.5%
BOTOȘANI North-East 386,529 49,631,253 661,318 34,809,943 85,102,514 220 2.5%
GALAȚI South-East 486,387 58,453,703 1,672,234 22,854,769 82,980,706 171 2.4%
NEAMȚ North-East 444,666 47,220,926 2,233,773 31,129,642 80,584,341 181 2.3%
BUZĂU South-East 393,136 57,033,551 1,176,934 20,376,398 78,586,883 200 2.3%
ARGEȘ South-Muntenia 561,864 43,761,509 1,357,464 33,363,941 78,482,914 140 2.3%
VÂLCEA South-West Oltenia 337,988 44,664,122 4,338,770 26,758,269 75,761,161 224 2.2%
HARGHITA Centre 292,267 63,132,304 4,127,506 5,702,801 72,962,611 250 2.1%
MARAMUREȘ North-West 451,086 39,138,859 5,118,711 27,414,037 71,671,607 159 2.1%
VASLUI North-East 363,247 45,203,921 2,104,392 24,076,271 71,384,584 197 2.1%
OLT South-West Oltenia 372,181 42,423,663 450,944 27,122,312 69,996,919 188 2.0%
MUREȘ Centre 519,813 42,321,667 3,125,990 21,751,100 67,198,757 129 1.9%
HUNEDOARA West 349,011 38,344,639 1,205,933 25,137,508 64,688,080 185 1.9%
DÂMBOVIȚA South-Muntenia 475,812 41,810,666 1,416,585 18,451,369 61,678,620 130 1.8%
ALBA Centre 324,901 35,440,821 1,681,784 21,494,646 58,617,251 180 1.7%
BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD North-West 298,129 42,762,937 1,660,603 11,974,459 56,397,999 189 1.6%
VRANCEA South-East 330,157 44,443,895 536,058 9,621,811 54,601,764 165 1.6%
COVASNA Centre 199,596 42,585,758 856,231 6,706,489 50,148,478 251 1.4%
GORJ South-West Oltenia 306,938 39,764,335 430,835 8,346,828 48,541,998 158 1.4%
SIBIU Centre 396,679 30,867,072 5,331,216 8,533,366 44,731,654 113 1.3%
BRĂILA South-East 269,804 34,445,453 921,226 7,540,983 42,907,662 159 1.2%
MEHEDINȚI South-West Oltenia 226,429 27,104,642 541,764 12,760,059 40,406,465 178 1.2%
TELEORMAN South-Muntenia 308,440 30,738,971 256,900 7,970,820 38,966,691 126 1.1%
SATU MARE North-West 330,046 21,198,634 1,831,053 15,812,819 38,842,506 118 1.1%
TULCEA South-East 186,131 24,513,353 280,405 10,904,826 35,698,584 192 1.0%
CĂLĂRAȘI South-Muntenia 277,347 32,612,992 693,959 1,221,341 34,528,292 124 1.0%
CARAȘ-SEVERIN West 240,283 23,454,141 640,088 9,481,615 33,575,844 140 1.0%
IALOMIȚA South-Muntenia 247,409 25,034,016 826,223 6,904,526 32,764,765 132 0.9%
ILFOV Bucharest-Ilfov 619,461 27,045,438 2,294,976 1,724,977 31,065,391 50 0.9%
GIURGIU South-Muntenia 258,793 21,713,571 444,758 5,830,816 27,989,145 108 0.8%
SĂLAJ North-West 210,335 22,953,534 354,010 4,236,631 27,544,175 131 0.8%

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 316,205,621 179,631,966 −136,573,655
ARAD 176,267,940 175,382,037 −885,903
IAȘI 69,349,014 70,910,614 +1,561,600
DOLJ 70,256,630 67,174,341 −3,082,289
TIMIȘ 40,697,151 64,293,607 +23,596,456
CONSTANȚA 53,890,554 55,462,274 +1,571,720
PRAHOVA 47,041,292 47,093,513 +52,221
BIHOR 36,989,245 45,304,530 +8,315,285
BACĂU 22,234,283 44,595,320 +22,361,037
SUCEAVA 36,586,108 40,328,021 +3,741,913
BRAȘOV 36,852,936 39,499,984 +2,647,048
GALAȚI 22,854,772 37,996,575 +15,141,803
BOTOȘANI 34,809,941 34,909,408 +99,467
NEAMȚ 31,129,644 33,809,918 +2,680,274
ARGEȘ 33,363,938 32,683,193 −680,745
CLUJ 29,024,890 27,132,824 −1,892,066
OLT 27,122,312 26,962,297 −160,015
MARAMUREȘ 27,414,036 26,930,942 −483,094
VÂLCEA 26,758,285 26,188,894 −569,391
HUNEDOARA 25,137,504 25,496,851 +359,347
VASLUI 24,076,270 25,354,663 +1,278,393
MUREȘ 21,751,100 23,563,488 +1,812,388
ALBA 21,494,650 23,486,487 +1,991,837
BUZĂU 20,376,399 20,493,817 +117,418
SIBIU 8,533,366 19,682,709 +11,149,343
SATU MARE 15,812,819 16,550,574 +737,755
DÂMBOVIȚA 18,451,372 13,163,885 −5,287,487
BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD 11,974,459 13,079,633 +1,105,174
MEHEDINȚI 12,760,058 12,823,187 +63,129
TULCEA 10,904,823 10,847,467 −57,356
CARAȘ-SEVERIN 9,481,615 9,986,911 +505,296
VRANCEA 9,621,812 9,835,990 +214,178
TELEORMAN 7,970,820 7,920,254 −50,566
ILFOV 1,724,976 7,838,200 +6,113,224
BRĂILA 7,540,982 7,540,982 0
COVASNA 6,706,488 7,343,543 +637,055
GORJ 8,346,828 7,297,279 −1,049,549
HARGHITA 5,702,799 7,008,772 +1,305,973
IALOMIȚA 6,904,526 6,904,526 0
GIURGIU 5,830,816 5,990,230 +159,414
SĂLAJ 4,236,632 4,854,265 +617,633
CĂLĂRAȘI 1,221,341 1,031,858 −189,483

Another 41.03 Mn. (2.9% 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
  • /api/v1/stats/periods
  • /api/v1/stats/breakdown
  • /api/v1/stats/lots

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