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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 150

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 — 16.57 Mn. ARAD — 6.94 Mn. ARGEȘ — 13.21 Mn. BACĂU — 5.05 Mn. BIHOR — 5.78 Mn. BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD — 2.53 Mn. BOTOȘANI — 12.75 Mn. BRĂILA — 7.35 Mn. BRAȘOV — 61.69 Mn. BUCUREȘTI — 125.73 Mn. BUZĂU — 28.80 Mn. CĂLĂRAȘI — 4.77 Mn. CARAȘ-SEVERIN — 6.22 Mn. CLUJ — 367.84 Mn. CONSTANȚA — 18.66 Mn. COVASNA — 9.96 Mn. DÂMBOVIȚA — 7.16 Mn. DOLJ — 19.24 Mn. GALAȚI — 13.50 Mn. GIURGIU — 5.62 Mn. GORJ — 8.82 Mn. HARGHITA — 8.62 Mn. HUNEDOARA — 10.93 Mn. IALOMIȚA — 756,720 RON IAȘI — 21.96 Mn. ILFOV — 13.94 Mn. MARAMUREȘ — 17.74 Mn. MEHEDINȚI — 9.20 Mn. MUREȘ — 34.24 Mn. NEAMȚ — 92.02 Mn. OLT — 6.88 Mn. PRAHOVA — 12.26 Mn. SĂLAJ — 515,787 RON SATU MARE — 1.43 Mn. SIBIU — 98.87 Mn. SUCEAVA — 19.26 Mn. TELEORMAN — 14.43 Mn. TIMIȘ — 16.46 Mn. TULCEA — 10.88 Mn. VÂLCEA — 9.26 Mn. VASLUI — 5.94 Mn. VRANCEA — 1.78 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
CLUJ North-West 701,564 7,300,363 1,156,200 359,386,318 367,842,881 524 31.8%
BUCUREȘTI Bucharest-Ilfov 1,713,832 10,986,653 2,444,599 112,301,072 125,732,324 73 10.9%
SIBIU Centre 396,679 5,627,145 395,293 92,845,904 98,868,342 249 8.6%
NEAMȚ North-East 444,666 2,760,212 12,583 89,243,315 92,016,110 207 8.0%
BRAȘOV Centre 564,632 5,820,743 311,838 55,557,869 61,690,450 109 5.3%
MUREȘ Centre 519,813 5,043,836 151,448 29,044,737 34,240,021 66 3.0%
BUZĂU South-East 393,136 5,822,501 100,236 22,876,292 28,799,029 73 2.5%
IAȘI North-East 781,948 6,695,229 406,125 14,859,080 21,960,434 28 1.9%
SUCEAVA North-East 648,164 2,213,317 18,052 17,032,964 19,264,333 30 1.7%
DOLJ South-West Oltenia 594,523 5,876,942 82,793 13,285,026 19,244,761 32 1.7%
CONSTANȚA South-East 656,512 3,486,050 1,119,930 14,058,211 18,664,191 28 1.6%
MARAMUREȘ North-West 451,086 2,661,971 495,662 14,578,819 17,736,452 39 1.5%
ALBA Centre 324,901 4,054,804 86,678 12,428,667 16,570,149 51 1.4%
TIMIȘ West 672,972 3,885,777 650,409 11,923,921 16,460,107 24 1.4%
TELEORMAN South-Muntenia 308,440 4,638,824 573,710 9,220,110 14,432,644 47 1.3%
ILFOV Bucharest-Ilfov 619,461 1,256,184 149,717 12,538,196 13,944,097 23 1.2%
GALAȚI South-East 486,387 2,429,371 86,341 10,985,972 13,501,684 28 1.2%
ARGEȘ South-Muntenia 561,864 6,506,809 133,723 6,566,773 13,207,305 24 1.1%
BOTOȘANI North-East 386,529 1,251,170 58,657 11,439,129 12,748,956 33 1.1%
PRAHOVA South-Muntenia 683,460 1,624,749 381,913 10,250,966 12,257,628 18 1.1%
HUNEDOARA West 349,011 4,129,575 55,206 6,747,047 10,931,828 31 1.0%
TULCEA South-East 186,131 4,398,163 22,497 6,457,820 10,878,480 58 0.9%
COVASNA Centre 199,596 5,046,233 50,215 4,862,400 9,958,848 50 0.9%
VÂLCEA South-West Oltenia 337,988 5,458,138 262,307 3,538,929 9,259,374 27 0.8%
MEHEDINȚI South-West Oltenia 226,429 534,644 2,972 8,658,172 9,195,788 41 0.8%
GORJ South-West Oltenia 306,938 3,833,074 8,291 4,975,309 8,816,674 29 0.8%
HARGHITA Centre 292,267 2,861,946 210,546 5,545,842 8,618,334 29 0.8%
BRĂILA South-East 269,804 1,499,314 53,512 5,796,467 7,349,293 27 0.6%
DÂMBOVIȚA South-Muntenia 475,812 4,004,617 148,940 3,007,572 7,161,129 15 0.6%
ARAD West 410,058 2,680,332 36,948 4,217,827 6,935,107 17 0.6%
OLT South-West Oltenia 372,181 1,794,951 9,123 5,076,862 6,880,936 18 0.6%
CARAȘ-SEVERIN West 240,283 165,736 1,525 6,049,087 6,216,348 26 0.5%
VASLUI North-East 363,247 2,091,958 576,906 3,272,320 5,941,184 16 0.5%
BIHOR North-West 558,623 2,438,536 241,951 3,099,490 5,779,977 10 0.5%
GIURGIU South-Muntenia 258,793 2,481,534 17,059 3,117,596 5,616,189 22 0.5%
BACĂU North-East 590,169 1,931,456 185,639 2,937,214 5,054,309 9 0.4%
CĂLĂRAȘI South-Muntenia 277,347 3,210,480 20,603 1,538,465 4,769,548 17 0.4%
BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD North-West 298,129 1,921,672 34,335 576,670 2,532,677 9 0.2%
VRANCEA South-East 330,157 1,177,684 35,966 567,363 1,781,013 5 0.2%
SATU MARE North-West 330,046 1,186,737 214,054 25,056 1,425,847 4 0.1%
IALOMIȚA South-Muntenia 247,409 509,549 247,171 — 756,720 3 0.1%
SĂLAJ North-West 210,335 328,767 177,914 9,106 515,787 2 0.0%

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
CLUJ 359,386,313 364,528,205 +5,141,892
SIBIU 92,845,901 112,389,496 +19,543,595
BRAȘOV 55,557,867 90,435,816 +34,877,949
BUCUREȘTI 112,301,074 85,985,755 −26,315,319
MUREȘ 29,044,736 33,347,741 +4,303,005
SUCEAVA 17,032,963 22,957,583 +5,924,620
BUZĂU 22,876,292 22,161,752 −714,540
NEAMȚ 89,243,315 18,227,556 −71,015,759
DOLJ 13,285,025 16,494,557 +3,209,532
VÂLCEA 3,538,928 14,983,938 +11,445,010
IAȘI 14,859,074 14,712,612 −146,462
CONSTANȚA 14,058,211 14,395,096 +336,885
ALBA 12,428,664 12,428,664 0
TIMIȘ 11,923,921 11,923,921 0
BOTOȘANI 11,439,130 11,471,595 +32,465
PRAHOVA 10,250,966 10,492,570 +241,604
GALAȚI 10,985,967 10,183,979 −801,988
TELEORMAN 9,220,111 9,220,111 0
ARGEȘ 6,566,776 9,088,818 +2,522,042
MEHEDINȚI 8,658,168 8,565,119 −93,049
HUNEDOARA 6,747,045 7,245,110 +498,065
OLT 5,076,868 7,074,256 +1,997,388
ILFOV 12,538,196 6,588,278 −5,949,918
MARAMUREȘ 14,578,818 6,529,953 −8,048,865
TULCEA 6,457,824 6,457,824 0
CARAȘ-SEVERIN 6,049,087 6,049,087 0
HARGHITA 5,545,840 5,137,311 −408,529
COVASNA 4,862,400 4,862,400 0
GORJ 4,975,309 4,155,157 −820,152
IALOMIȚA 0 3,395,249 +3,395,249
VASLUI 3,272,322 3,220,983 −51,339
GIURGIU 3,117,596 3,117,596 0
DÂMBOVIȚA 3,007,572 3,073,862 +66,290
BACĂU 2,937,213 2,937,213 0
BIHOR 3,099,493 2,896,940 −202,553
BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD 576,670 2,495,996 +1,919,326
BRĂILA 5,796,465 2,401,216 −3,395,249
CĂLĂRAȘI 1,538,463 1,538,463 0
VRANCEA 567,366 567,366 0
ARAD 4,217,827 27,020 −4,190,807
SATU MARE 25,056 25,056 0
SĂLAJ 9,106 9,106 0

Another 26.70 Mn. (2.7% 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/breakdown
  • /api/v1/stats/lots

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