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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 18

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 — 32.62 Mn. ARAD — 40.75 Mn. ARGEȘ — 49.93 Mn. BACĂU — 46.57 Mn. BIHOR — 63.00 Mn. BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD — 32.14 Mn. BOTOȘANI — 22.86 Mn. BRĂILA — 13.44 Mn. BRAȘOV — 80.29 Mn. BUCUREȘTI — 1.33 Bn. BUZĂU — 34.50 Mn. CĂLĂRAȘI — 17.09 Mn. CARAȘ-SEVERIN — 12.68 Mn. CLUJ — 141.63 Mn. CONSTANȚA — 74.04 Mn. COVASNA — 13.42 Mn. DÂMBOVIȚA — 48.68 Mn. DOLJ — 40.53 Mn. GALAȚI — 49.25 Mn. GIURGIU — 13.65 Mn. GORJ — 46.91 Mn. HARGHITA — 32.76 Mn. HUNEDOARA — 39.89 Mn. IALOMIȚA — 15.83 Mn. IAȘI — 99.58 Mn. ILFOV — 74.57 Mn. MARAMUREȘ — 37.94 Mn. MEHEDINȚI — 16.60 Mn. MUREȘ — 125.41 Mn. NEAMȚ — 80.14 Mn. OLT — 27.49 Mn. PRAHOVA — 57.47 Mn. SĂLAJ — 22.96 Mn. SATU MARE — 14.45 Mn. SIBIU — 71.63 Mn. SUCEAVA — 39.95 Mn. TELEORMAN — 21.02 Mn. TIMIȘ — 83.10 Mn. TULCEA — 22.45 Mn. VÂLCEA — 25.70 Mn. VASLUI — 26.37 Mn. VRANCEA — 32.72 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 1,713,832 288,435,267 40,449,485 1,001,653,188 1,330,537,940 776 41.9%
CLUJ North-West 701,564 67,183,352 4,830,133 69,618,103 141,631,588 202 4.5%
MUREȘ Centre 519,813 26,485,502 1,077,445 97,844,525 125,407,472 241 4.0%
IAȘI North-East 781,948 55,634,553 3,210,141 40,732,613 99,577,307 127 3.1%
TIMIȘ West 672,972 48,915,880 5,347,950 28,839,786 83,103,616 123 2.6%
BRAȘOV Centre 564,632 51,043,955 1,868,457 27,380,399 80,292,811 142 2.5%
NEAMȚ North-East 444,666 25,517,005 650,076 53,974,240 80,141,321 180 2.5%
ILFOV Bucharest-Ilfov 619,461 35,206,984 1,316,306 38,048,214 74,571,504 120 2.4%
CONSTANȚA South-East 656,512 50,027,111 4,326,022 19,685,565 74,038,698 113 2.3%
SIBIU Centre 396,679 27,088,769 4,841,434 39,700,380 71,630,583 181 2.3%
BIHOR North-West 558,623 30,829,806 3,245,684 28,920,117 62,995,607 113 2.0%
PRAHOVA South-Muntenia 683,460 31,158,940 2,579,951 23,731,346 57,470,237 84 1.8%
ARGEȘ South-Muntenia 561,864 29,597,801 1,207,865 19,128,511 49,934,177 89 1.6%
GALAȚI South-East 486,387 23,771,332 2,619,434 22,859,184 49,249,950 101 1.6%
DÂMBOVIȚA South-Muntenia 475,812 23,407,362 1,239,154 24,029,631 48,676,147 102 1.5%
GORJ South-West Oltenia 306,938 15,301,522 852,974 30,753,762 46,908,258 153 1.5%
BACĂU North-East 590,169 26,464,138 1,530,946 18,579,544 46,574,628 79 1.5%
ARAD West 410,058 18,877,917 1,154,713 20,715,756 40,748,386 99 1.3%
DOLJ South-West Oltenia 594,523 27,759,771 1,536,574 11,236,523 40,532,868 68 1.3%
SUCEAVA North-East 648,164 29,012,573 1,308,502 9,630,437 39,951,512 62 1.3%
HUNEDOARA West 349,011 22,422,354 415,250 17,054,940 39,892,544 114 1.3%
MARAMUREȘ North-West 451,086 21,846,738 3,443,874 12,649,404 37,940,016 84 1.2%
BUZĂU South-East 393,136 21,239,490 1,507,645 11,752,289 34,499,424 88 1.1%
HARGHITA Centre 292,267 13,087,022 1,083,365 18,589,520 32,759,907 112 1.0%
VRANCEA South-East 330,157 23,097,499 757,657 8,860,684 32,715,840 99 1.0%
ALBA Centre 324,901 20,241,258 1,380,642 10,998,550 32,620,450 100 1.0%
BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD North-West 298,129 16,383,419 1,486,769 14,274,673 32,144,861 108 1.0%
OLT South-West Oltenia 372,181 17,170,031 780,671 9,543,250 27,493,952 74 0.9%
VASLUI North-East 363,247 16,073,536 863,136 9,432,493 26,369,165 73 0.8%
VÂLCEA South-West Oltenia 337,988 17,760,934 2,496,656 5,441,740 25,699,330 76 0.8%
SĂLAJ North-West 210,335 9,722,238 164,632 13,070,373 22,957,243 109 0.7%
BOTOȘANI North-East 386,529 17,220,599 662,430 4,979,121 22,862,150 59 0.7%
TULCEA South-East 186,131 13,620,878 148,324 8,676,355 22,445,557 121 0.7%
TELEORMAN South-Muntenia 308,440 15,722,612 238,014 5,055,918 21,016,544 68 0.7%
CĂLĂRAȘI South-Muntenia 277,347 15,818,534 408,388 859,034 17,085,956 62 0.5%
MEHEDINȚI South-West Oltenia 226,429 13,417,833 510,513 2,673,991 16,602,337 73 0.5%
IALOMIȚA South-Muntenia 247,409 12,493,342 834,989 2,506,624 15,834,955 64 0.5%
SATU MARE North-West 330,046 10,560,954 1,481,272 2,410,712 14,452,938 44 0.5%
GIURGIU South-Muntenia 258,793 10,112,234 465,147 3,076,971 13,654,352 53 0.4%
BRĂILA South-East 269,804 11,570,676 128,549 1,742,111 13,441,336 50 0.4%
COVASNA Centre 199,596 11,696,286 1,126,116 598,173 13,420,575 67 0.4%
CARAȘ-SEVERIN West 240,283 11,071,218 105,963 1,502,515 12,679,696 53 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 1,001,653,201 859,340,013 −142,313,188
MUREȘ 97,844,528 107,646,390 +9,801,862
CLUJ 69,618,102 65,002,755 −4,615,347
BACĂU 18,579,544 58,349,880 +39,770,336
PRAHOVA 23,731,347 54,384,123 +30,652,776
IAȘI 40,732,614 42,247,874 +1,515,260
SIBIU 39,700,380 42,156,683 +2,456,303
BRAȘOV 27,380,402 33,186,610 +5,806,208
BIHOR 28,920,114 32,754,589 +3,834,475
TIMIȘ 28,839,784 29,809,616 +969,832
DÂMBOVIȚA 24,029,631 24,957,008 +927,377
ARGEȘ 19,128,511 24,569,998 +5,441,487
CONSTANȚA 19,685,564 24,394,857 +4,709,293
ARAD 20,715,756 24,308,219 +3,592,463
GALAȚI 22,859,184 23,873,461 +1,014,277
SUCEAVA 9,630,438 22,143,772 +12,513,334
HARGHITA 18,589,520 18,529,600 −59,920
ILFOV 38,048,214 18,009,046 −20,039,168
HUNEDOARA 17,054,941 17,408,283 +353,342
BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD 14,274,673 15,138,653 +863,980
MARAMUREȘ 12,649,404 14,672,374 +2,022,970
GORJ 30,753,760 14,336,618 −16,417,142
VASLUI 9,432,493 13,673,756 +4,241,263
SĂLAJ 13,070,374 13,299,747 +229,373
DOLJ 11,236,523 13,007,190 +1,770,667
ALBA 10,998,549 12,333,998 +1,335,449
BUZĂU 11,752,289 12,292,528 +540,239
VRANCEA 8,860,683 9,728,285 +867,602
NEAMȚ 53,974,239 8,899,255 −45,074,984
OLT 9,543,251 8,740,967 −802,284
TULCEA 8,676,358 8,555,083 −121,275
BOTOȘANI 4,979,118 7,587,890 +2,608,772
VÂLCEA 5,441,735 6,794,704 +1,352,969
TELEORMAN 5,055,918 5,303,735 +247,817
MEHEDINȚI 2,673,991 3,140,183 +466,192
SATU MARE 2,410,712 2,490,245 +79,533
CARAȘ-SEVERIN 1,502,515 1,877,043 +374,528
BRĂILA 1,742,111 1,742,111 0
CĂLĂRAȘI 859,034 1,716,537 +857,503
IALOMIȚA 2,506,624 1,518,035 −988,589
COVASNA 598,172 1,275,360 +677,188
GIURGIU 3,076,971 801,689 −2,275,282

Another 90.81 Mn. (5.1% 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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