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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 15

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 — 164.76 Mn. ARAD — 157.14 Mn. ARGEȘ — 178.83 Mn. BACĂU — 247.47 Mn. BIHOR — 250.50 Mn. BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD — 130.17 Mn. BOTOȘANI — 199.79 Mn. BRĂILA — 92.25 Mn. BRAȘOV — 375.24 Mn. BUCUREȘTI — 2.41 Bn. BUZĂU — 213.36 Mn. CĂLĂRAȘI — 73.48 Mn. CARAȘ-SEVERIN — 81.25 Mn. CLUJ — 746.84 Mn. CONSTANȚA — 412.78 Mn. COVASNA — 118.91 Mn. DÂMBOVIȚA — 156.53 Mn. DOLJ — 250.22 Mn. GALAȚI — 191.16 Mn. GIURGIU — 70.75 Mn. GORJ — 112.04 Mn. HARGHITA — 130.63 Mn. HUNEDOARA — 272.23 Mn. IALOMIȚA — 68.08 Mn. IAȘI — 378.33 Mn. ILFOV — 225.88 Mn. MARAMUREȘ — 197.71 Mn. MEHEDINȚI — 42.70 Mn. MUREȘ — 268.94 Mn. NEAMȚ — 304.10 Mn. OLT — 197.02 Mn. PRAHOVA — 387.85 Mn. SĂLAJ — 107.28 Mn. SATU MARE — 136.95 Mn. SIBIU — 229.74 Mn. SUCEAVA — 271.80 Mn. TELEORMAN — 82.00 Mn. TIMIȘ — 299.96 Mn. TULCEA — 110.54 Mn. VÂLCEA — 137.03 Mn. VASLUI — 168.91 Mn. VRANCEA — 92.85 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 1,713,832 500,291,516 56,615,115 1,849,030,653 2,405,937,284 1,404 22.4%
CLUJ North-West 701,564 199,922,479 12,070,007 534,848,900 746,841,386 1,065 7.0%
CONSTANȚA South-East 656,512 113,148,073 11,507,998 288,125,448 412,781,519 629 3.8%
PRAHOVA South-Muntenia 683,460 119,352,513 5,524,678 262,976,050 387,853,241 567 3.6%
IAȘI North-East 781,948 150,488,686 9,463,636 218,375,820 378,328,142 484 3.5%
BRAȘOV Centre 564,632 121,351,466 3,239,315 250,651,307 375,242,088 665 3.5%
NEAMȚ North-East 444,666 59,293,747 1,731,782 243,071,897 304,097,426 684 2.8%
TIMIȘ West 672,972 137,267,210 7,561,893 155,133,095 299,962,198 446 2.8%
HUNEDOARA West 349,011 71,247,864 1,998,293 198,980,861 272,227,018 780 2.5%
SUCEAVA North-East 648,164 96,648,421 5,603,006 169,545,566 271,796,993 419 2.5%
MUREȘ Centre 519,813 123,287,518 5,063,974 140,590,930 268,942,422 517 2.5%
BIHOR North-West 558,623 87,245,540 9,385,361 153,869,804 250,500,705 448 2.3%
DOLJ South-West Oltenia 594,523 99,285,986 3,664,485 147,268,381 250,218,852 421 2.3%
BACĂU North-East 590,169 84,700,606 6,136,669 156,637,303 247,474,578 419 2.3%
SIBIU Centre 396,679 69,831,272 6,788,341 153,121,276 229,740,889 579 2.1%
ILFOV Bucharest-Ilfov 619,461 48,412,530 5,572,647 171,895,355 225,880,532 365 2.1%
BUZĂU South-East 393,136 66,823,426 4,382,177 142,154,420 213,360,023 543 2.0%
BOTOȘANI North-East 386,529 60,547,645 1,757,518 137,487,081 199,792,244 517 1.9%
MARAMUREȘ North-West 451,086 58,343,383 9,663,169 129,703,900 197,710,452 438 1.8%
OLT South-West Oltenia 372,181 43,124,912 747,746 153,148,262 197,020,920 529 1.8%
GALAȚI South-East 486,387 90,895,398 4,430,282 95,837,551 191,163,231 393 1.8%
ARGEȘ South-Muntenia 561,864 68,400,976 2,518,973 107,908,307 178,828,256 318 1.7%
VASLUI North-East 363,247 41,942,394 6,300,198 120,666,568 168,909,160 465 1.6%
ALBA Centre 324,901 59,840,474 5,508,095 99,411,794 164,760,363 507 1.5%
ARAD West 410,058 42,197,732 3,392,437 111,546,897 157,137,066 383 1.5%
DÂMBOVIȚA South-Muntenia 475,812 54,572,457 3,758,799 98,200,424 156,531,680 329 1.5%
VÂLCEA South-West Oltenia 337,988 40,981,257 5,345,295 90,699,591 137,026,143 405 1.3%
SATU MARE North-West 330,046 24,521,589 6,020,709 106,412,194 136,954,492 415 1.3%
HARGHITA Centre 292,267 68,748,636 2,955,212 58,925,025 130,628,873 447 1.2%
BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD North-West 298,129 69,994,162 1,851,577 58,322,540 130,168,279 437 1.2%
COVASNA Centre 199,596 77,237,123 1,493,501 40,177,967 118,908,591 596 1.1%
GORJ South-West Oltenia 306,938 45,127,057 2,294,418 64,615,923 112,037,398 365 1.0%
TULCEA South-East 186,131 40,938,672 768,304 68,832,289 110,539,265 594 1.0%
SĂLAJ North-West 210,335 25,586,522 1,112,494 80,580,729 107,279,745 510 1.0%
VRANCEA South-East 330,157 48,529,149 1,313,986 43,007,988 92,851,123 281 0.9%
BRĂILA South-East 269,804 40,982,946 853,331 50,417,173 92,253,450 342 0.9%
TELEORMAN South-Muntenia 308,440 35,037,466 984,385 45,980,569 82,002,420 266 0.8%
CARAȘ-SEVERIN West 240,283 36,530,995 1,618,462 43,104,547 81,254,004 338 0.8%
CĂLĂRAȘI South-Muntenia 277,347 43,523,237 1,192,320 28,765,488 73,481,045 265 0.7%
GIURGIU South-Muntenia 258,793 19,235,518 547,531 50,963,388 70,746,437 273 0.7%
IALOMIȚA South-Muntenia 247,409 24,739,451 1,502,850 41,840,396 68,082,697 275 0.6%
MEHEDINȚI South-West Oltenia 226,429 14,937,710 1,047,262 26,717,517 42,702,489 189 0.4%

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 1,849,030,635 551,522,829 −1,297,507,806
CLUJ 534,848,898 550,918,519 +16,069,621
PRAHOVA 262,976,041 291,904,508 +28,928,467
BRAȘOV 250,651,306 283,243,886 +32,592,580
CONSTANȚA 288,125,454 282,817,863 −5,307,591
IAȘI 218,375,818 211,932,240 −6,443,578
HUNEDOARA 198,980,855 207,346,048 +8,365,193
SIBIU 153,121,271 200,224,701 +47,103,430
ILFOV 171,886,138 183,316,133 +11,429,995
SUCEAVA 169,545,568 177,429,370 +7,883,802
NEAMȚ 243,071,890 173,525,003 −69,546,887
BACĂU 156,637,306 156,096,107 −541,199
TIMIȘ 155,133,092 155,701,351 +568,259
DOLJ 147,268,356 155,292,581 +8,024,225
BIHOR 153,869,799 154,262,823 +393,024
MUREȘ 140,590,930 151,892,240 +11,301,310
OLT 153,148,263 150,937,534 −2,210,729
BUZĂU 142,154,420 138,266,392 −3,888,028
BOTOȘANI 137,487,064 137,389,972 −97,092
VASLUI 120,666,576 123,760,392 +3,093,816
MARAMUREȘ 129,703,899 119,663,407 −10,040,492
ARGEȘ 107,908,324 118,532,735 +10,624,411
ARAD 111,546,902 109,212,776 −2,334,126
SATU MARE 106,412,186 106,812,643 +400,457
VÂLCEA 90,699,597 102,656,522 +11,956,925
ALBA 99,411,792 98,696,825 −714,967
DÂMBOVIȚA 98,200,427 95,263,831 −2,936,596
GALAȚI 95,837,545 94,475,676 −1,361,869
SĂLAJ 80,580,733 80,580,733 0
TULCEA 68,832,274 69,636,569 +804,295
BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD 58,322,537 62,091,174 +3,768,637
HARGHITA 58,925,023 58,977,387 +52,364
GORJ 64,615,926 56,254,406 −8,361,520
GIURGIU 50,963,388 53,633,728 +2,670,340
CARAȘ-SEVERIN 43,104,546 47,291,582 +4,187,036
BRĂILA 50,417,170 47,101,013 −3,316,157
IALOMIȚA 41,840,396 46,511,362 +4,670,966
VRANCEA 43,007,991 43,477,468 +469,477
COVASNA 40,177,967 40,512,161 +334,194
TELEORMAN 45,980,573 39,864,680 −6,115,893
CĂLĂRAȘI 28,765,486 28,765,486 0
MEHEDINȚI 26,717,517 26,764,588 +47,071

Another 1.20 Bn. (16.8% 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.

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