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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 158

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 — 76.52 Mn. ARAD — 90.17 Mn. ARGEȘ — 67.85 Mn. BACĂU — 144.11 Mn. BIHOR — 130.52 Mn. BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD — 76.69 Mn. BOTOȘANI — 71.45 Mn. BRĂILA — 35.40 Mn. BRAȘOV — 139.55 Mn. BUCUREȘTI — 1.49 Bn. BUZĂU — 82.23 Mn. CĂLĂRAȘI — 23.67 Mn. CARAȘ-SEVERIN — 34.50 Mn. CLUJ — 183.24 Mn. CONSTANȚA — 146.59 Mn. COVASNA — 51.49 Mn. DÂMBOVIȚA — 60.33 Mn. DOLJ — 100.86 Mn. GALAȚI — 69.90 Mn. GIURGIU — 35.03 Mn. GORJ — 71.99 Mn. HARGHITA — 61.27 Mn. HUNEDOARA — 140.95 Mn. IALOMIȚA — 27.06 Mn. IAȘI — 149.27 Mn. ILFOV — 152.09 Mn. MARAMUREȘ — 75.44 Mn. MEHEDINȚI — 21.07 Mn. MUREȘ — 120.41 Mn. NEAMȚ — 94.71 Mn. OLT — 79.22 Mn. PRAHOVA — 164.09 Mn. SĂLAJ — 41.91 Mn. SATU MARE — 43.15 Mn. SIBIU — 61.45 Mn. SUCEAVA — 123.71 Mn. TELEORMAN — 36.07 Mn. TIMIȘ — 123.32 Mn. TULCEA — 51.97 Mn. VÂLCEA — 57.98 Mn. VASLUI — 75.84 Mn. VRANCEA — 51.59 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 1,713,832 194,200,766 22,505,820 1,272,355,077 1,489,061,663 869 30.2%
CLUJ North-West 701,564 102,391,040 5,564,081 75,285,493 183,240,614 261 3.7%
PRAHOVA South-Muntenia 683,460 55,957,433 2,772,532 105,357,871 164,087,836 240 3.3%
ILFOV Bucharest-Ilfov 619,461 29,458,969 2,400,853 120,234,400 152,094,222 246 3.1%
IAȘI North-East 781,948 73,999,103 3,922,413 71,347,101 149,268,617 191 3.0%
CONSTANȚA South-East 656,512 60,932,126 7,511,203 78,142,191 146,585,520 223 3.0%
BACĂU North-East 590,169 45,662,308 3,908,736 94,534,058 144,105,102 244 2.9%
HUNEDOARA West 349,011 34,516,725 1,212,447 105,219,877 140,949,049 404 2.9%
BRAȘOV Centre 564,632 64,982,644 2,040,721 72,530,255 139,553,620 247 2.8%
BIHOR North-West 558,623 50,062,341 3,217,049 77,242,927 130,522,317 234 2.7%
SUCEAVA North-East 648,164 52,077,913 2,900,646 68,730,456 123,709,015 191 2.5%
TIMIȘ West 672,972 67,155,653 3,486,465 52,677,096 123,319,214 183 2.5%
MUREȘ Centre 519,813 64,698,427 2,437,591 53,272,993 120,409,011 232 2.4%
DOLJ South-West Oltenia 594,523 56,242,134 954,665 43,664,092 100,860,891 170 2.0%
NEAMȚ North-East 444,666 34,814,082 1,370,211 58,530,147 94,714,440 213 1.9%
ARAD West 410,058 27,553,853 2,357,239 60,256,966 90,168,058 220 1.8%
BUZĂU South-East 393,136 36,807,799 3,114,065 42,312,769 82,234,633 209 1.7%
OLT South-West Oltenia 372,181 27,934,660 653,572 50,627,380 79,215,612 213 1.6%
BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD North-West 298,129 37,232,435 825,103 38,629,682 76,687,220 257 1.6%
ALBA Centre 324,901 35,047,313 3,943,864 37,529,079 76,520,256 236 1.6%
VASLUI North-East 363,247 17,981,018 2,710,809 55,147,449 75,839,276 209 1.5%
MARAMUREȘ North-West 451,086 24,695,901 5,108,914 45,631,023 75,435,838 167 1.5%
GORJ South-West Oltenia 306,938 23,809,776 1,636,886 46,538,344 71,985,006 235 1.5%
BOTOȘANI North-East 386,529 25,528,841 1,113,486 44,805,945 71,448,272 185 1.5%
GALAȚI South-East 486,387 41,832,953 1,947,089 26,122,184 69,902,226 144 1.4%
ARGEȘ South-Muntenia 561,864 31,926,581 1,340,025 34,578,670 67,845,276 121 1.4%
SIBIU Centre 396,679 34,676,259 2,808,983 23,967,695 61,452,937 155 1.3%
HARGHITA Centre 292,267 40,038,253 1,409,250 19,826,559 61,274,062 210 1.2%
DÂMBOVIȚA South-Muntenia 475,812 28,034,865 3,020,466 29,270,821 60,326,152 127 1.2%
VÂLCEA South-West Oltenia 337,988 19,544,390 1,484,188 36,951,652 57,980,230 172 1.2%
TULCEA South-East 186,131 24,282,401 540,941 27,142,036 51,965,378 279 1.1%
VRANCEA South-East 330,157 29,269,553 644,178 21,676,477 51,590,208 156 1.1%
COVASNA Centre 199,596 34,166,728 701,972 16,623,764 51,492,464 258 1.0%
SATU MARE North-West 330,046 11,525,333 3,908,618 27,712,683 43,146,634 131 0.9%
SĂLAJ North-West 210,335 10,551,339 882,223 30,474,705 41,908,267 199 0.9%
TELEORMAN South-Muntenia 308,440 16,452,368 284,980 19,334,419 36,071,767 117 0.7%
BRĂILA South-East 269,804 19,121,168 304,938 15,973,358 35,399,464 131 0.7%
GIURGIU South-Muntenia 258,793 12,030,367 383,374 22,619,003 35,032,744 135 0.7%
CARAȘ-SEVERIN West 240,283 18,202,783 731,755 15,561,389 34,495,927 144 0.7%
IALOMIȚA South-Muntenia 247,409 10,457,118 488,936 16,111,719 27,057,773 109 0.6%
CĂLĂRAȘI South-Muntenia 277,347 18,945,396 939,754 3,787,290 23,672,440 85 0.5%
MEHEDINȚI South-West Oltenia 226,429 10,868,026 666,065 9,534,054 21,068,145 93 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
PRAHOVA 105,357,860 125,443,786 +20,085,926
ILFOV 120,225,185 117,236,981 −2,988,204
HUNEDOARA 105,219,874 113,160,554 +7,940,680
BUCUREȘTI 1,272,355,080 112,013,601 −1,160,341,479
BACĂU 94,534,064 93,989,939 −544,125
CLUJ 75,285,493 75,754,078 +468,585
BIHOR 77,242,920 75,205,138 −2,037,782
BRAȘOV 72,530,254 71,247,485 −1,282,769
CONSTANȚA 78,142,194 69,013,063 −9,129,131
SUCEAVA 68,730,455 67,262,927 −1,467,528
IAȘI 71,347,116 66,455,907 −4,891,209
ARAD 60,256,968 61,299,437 +1,042,469
NEAMȚ 58,530,159 58,262,865 −267,294
VASLUI 55,147,454 56,652,359 +1,504,905
MUREȘ 53,272,994 55,888,280 +2,615,286
TIMIȘ 52,677,098 52,596,105 −80,993
DOLJ 43,664,084 47,809,336 +4,145,252
OLT 50,627,379 46,419,262 −4,208,117
BOTOȘANI 44,805,937 44,805,937 0
MARAMUREȘ 45,631,023 44,751,632 −879,391
GORJ 46,538,344 41,744,229 −4,794,115
ARGEȘ 34,578,675 41,055,894 +6,477,219
BUZĂU 42,312,770 40,108,144 −2,204,626
BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD 38,629,680 38,126,201 −503,479
VÂLCEA 36,951,656 37,362,781 +411,125
ALBA 37,529,079 37,219,993 −309,086
SĂLAJ 30,474,706 30,474,706 0
DÂMBOVIȚA 29,270,825 28,198,419 −1,072,406
SATU MARE 27,712,684 28,093,543 +380,859
TULCEA 27,142,034 27,946,329 +804,295
GALAȚI 26,122,180 26,122,180 0
SIBIU 23,967,692 23,947,878 −19,814
GIURGIU 22,619,003 23,332,842 +713,839
VRANCEA 21,676,477 21,514,062 −162,415
HARGHITA 19,826,557 20,287,450 +460,893
IALOMIȚA 16,111,719 17,387,436 +1,275,717
COVASNA 16,623,766 16,957,960 +334,194
BRĂILA 15,973,358 15,973,358 0
CARAȘ-SEVERIN 15,561,388 15,351,412 −209,976
TELEORMAN 19,334,420 13,742,227 −5,592,193
MEHEDINȚI 9,534,056 9,674,251 +140,195
CĂLĂRAȘI 3,787,290 3,787,290 0

Another 1.15 Bn. (36.4% 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.

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