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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 24

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 — 26.56 Mn. ARAD — 72.12 Mn. ARGEȘ — 60.18 Mn. BACĂU — 115.77 Mn. BIHOR — 81.16 Mn. BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD — 46.26 Mn. BOTOȘANI — 45.55 Mn. BRĂILA — 44.19 Mn. BRAȘOV — 80.26 Mn. BUCUREȘTI — 1.30 Bn. BUZĂU — 33.15 Mn. CĂLĂRAȘI — 57.47 Mn. CARAȘ-SEVERIN — 23.23 Mn. CLUJ — 139.51 Mn. CONSTANȚA — 134.39 Mn. COVASNA — 23.88 Mn. DÂMBOVIȚA — 42.20 Mn. DOLJ — 177.39 Mn. GALAȚI — 90.47 Mn. GIURGIU — 10.72 Mn. GORJ — 126.66 Mn. HARGHITA — 21.93 Mn. HUNEDOARA — 55.97 Mn. IALOMIȚA — 14.15 Mn. IAȘI — 179.74 Mn. ILFOV — 57.73 Mn. MARAMUREȘ — 43.77 Mn. MEHEDINȚI — 20.07 Mn. MUREȘ — 90.48 Mn. NEAMȚ — 36.27 Mn. OLT — 52.34 Mn. PRAHOVA — 66.98 Mn. SĂLAJ — 17.16 Mn. SATU MARE — 32.31 Mn. SIBIU — 161.34 Mn. SUCEAVA — 54.46 Mn. TELEORMAN — 48.66 Mn. TIMIȘ — 178.59 Mn. TULCEA — 23.08 Mn. VÂLCEA — 57.15 Mn. VASLUI — 48.15 Mn. VRANCEA — 26.09 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 1,713,832 266,380,630 29,524,874 1,008,172,706 1,304,078,210 761 32.4%
IAȘI North-East 781,948 65,508,031 5,524,946 108,702,616 179,735,593 230 4.5%
TIMIȘ West 672,972 53,023,307 4,630,695 120,939,433 178,593,435 265 4.4%
DOLJ South-West Oltenia 594,523 29,044,334 5,267,484 143,074,758 177,386,576 298 4.4%
SIBIU Centre 396,679 32,938,910 6,728,787 121,674,589 161,342,286 407 4.0%
CLUJ North-West 701,564 68,739,865 7,077,166 63,689,613 139,506,644 199 3.5%
CONSTANȚA South-East 656,512 64,613,205 5,172,416 64,601,765 134,387,386 205 3.3%
GORJ South-West Oltenia 306,938 16,912,196 3,901,258 105,842,381 126,655,835 413 3.2%
BACĂU North-East 590,169 31,718,992 1,690,479 82,356,165 115,765,636 196 2.9%
MUREȘ Centre 519,813 27,951,002 2,048,446 60,480,104 90,479,552 174 2.3%
GALAȚI South-East 486,387 39,110,041 3,491,007 47,870,183 90,471,231 186 2.3%
BIHOR North-West 558,623 31,722,588 4,094,427 45,345,865 81,162,880 145 2.0%
BRAȘOV Centre 564,632 38,469,694 1,341,589 40,446,656 80,257,939 142 2.0%
ARAD West 410,058 18,361,151 1,864,978 51,889,658 72,115,787 176 1.8%
PRAHOVA South-Muntenia 683,460 34,538,783 1,155,635 31,280,770 66,975,188 98 1.7%
ARGEȘ South-Muntenia 561,864 38,955,919 3,019,440 18,204,131 60,179,490 107 1.5%
ILFOV Bucharest-Ilfov 619,461 43,181,492 824,891 13,718,666 57,725,049 93 1.4%
CĂLĂRAȘI South-Muntenia 277,347 24,939,977 205,981 32,320,817 57,466,775 207 1.4%
VÂLCEA South-West Oltenia 337,988 23,904,165 2,500,222 30,744,723 57,149,110 169 1.4%
HUNEDOARA West 349,011 27,847,423 2,012,006 26,112,742 55,972,171 160 1.4%
SUCEAVA North-East 648,164 41,330,816 868,347 12,264,458 54,463,621 84 1.4%
OLT South-West Oltenia 372,181 14,502,686 899,009 36,939,481 52,341,176 141 1.3%
TELEORMAN South-Muntenia 308,440 17,556,848 161,445 30,946,588 48,664,881 158 1.2%
VASLUI North-East 363,247 18,253,230 929,569 28,964,197 48,146,996 133 1.2%
BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD North-West 298,129 19,254,577 756,221 26,252,720 46,263,518 155 1.2%
BOTOȘANI North-East 386,529 19,154,610 474,473 25,925,439 45,554,522 118 1.1%
BRĂILA South-East 269,804 18,278,450 216,885 25,698,773 44,194,108 164 1.1%
MARAMUREȘ North-West 451,086 20,512,698 1,283,229 21,973,926 43,769,853 97 1.1%
DÂMBOVIȚA South-Muntenia 475,812 21,460,353 473,454 20,270,696 42,204,503 89 1.1%
NEAMȚ North-East 444,666 16,525,980 1,144,600 18,600,919 36,271,499 82 0.9%
BUZĂU South-East 393,136 20,404,947 553,033 12,188,777 33,146,757 84 0.8%
SATU MARE North-West 330,046 12,055,523 1,007,152 19,242,926 32,305,601 98 0.8%
ALBA Centre 324,901 23,058,764 1,145,864 2,358,169 26,562,797 82 0.7%
VRANCEA South-East 330,157 20,248,475 271,600 5,568,476 26,088,551 79 0.7%
COVASNA Centre 199,596 15,393,786 173,581 8,309,063 23,876,430 120 0.6%
CARAȘ-SEVERIN West 240,283 10,181,350 32,591 13,011,845 23,225,786 97 0.6%
TULCEA South-East 186,131 15,992,010 295,401 6,792,865 23,080,276 124 0.6%
HARGHITA Centre 292,267 16,616,069 876,073 4,440,781 21,932,923 75 0.6%
MEHEDINȚI South-West Oltenia 226,429 11,769,653 1,019,919 7,284,240 20,073,812 89 0.5%
SĂLAJ North-West 210,335 8,521,164 91,202 8,542,804 17,155,170 82 0.4%
IALOMIȚA South-Muntenia 247,409 12,421,331 551,604 1,179,380 14,152,315 57 0.4%
GIURGIU South-Muntenia 258,793 9,955,689 264,324 495,474 10,715,487 41 0.3%

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 1,008,172,699 518,525,636 −489,647,063
PRAHOVA 31,280,770 349,040,866 +317,760,096
TIMIȘ 120,939,430 119,825,561 −1,113,869
DOLJ 143,074,766 101,269,695 −41,805,071
IAȘI 108,702,627 98,938,897 −9,763,730
SIBIU 121,674,590 92,264,194 −29,410,396
OLT 36,939,476 87,440,095 +50,500,619
BACĂU 82,356,173 86,993,263 +4,637,090
CONSTANȚA 64,601,761 86,079,413 +21,477,652
MUREȘ 60,480,104 80,410,928 +19,930,824
CLUJ 63,689,608 59,377,697 −4,311,911
BRAȘOV 40,446,663 58,056,393 +17,609,730
ARAD 51,889,657 51,407,808 −481,849
GALAȚI 47,870,184 47,087,761 −782,423
GORJ 105,842,379 46,244,762 −59,597,617
BIHOR 45,345,863 46,179,893 +834,030
VASLUI 28,964,198 35,984,271 +7,020,073
TELEORMAN 30,946,588 30,720,863 −225,725
VÂLCEA 30,744,721 30,280,979 −463,742
ARGEȘ 18,204,131 28,034,839 +9,830,708
HUNEDOARA 26,112,747 26,489,896 +377,149
BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD 26,252,724 26,323,397 +70,673
BOTOȘANI 25,925,441 26,016,854 +91,413
CĂLĂRAȘI 32,320,817 25,791,082 −6,529,735
BRĂILA 25,698,773 25,698,773 0
MARAMUREȘ 21,973,916 21,939,860 −34,056
DÂMBOVIȚA 20,270,696 20,213,507 −57,189
SATU MARE 19,242,926 18,750,618 −492,308
NEAMȚ 18,600,921 18,525,761 −75,160
SUCEAVA 12,264,459 16,786,585 +4,522,126
CARAȘ-SEVERIN 13,011,845 13,011,845 0
BUZĂU 12,188,777 12,293,042 +104,265
SĂLAJ 8,542,804 8,990,554 +447,750
COVASNA 8,309,063 8,434,479 +125,416
MEHEDINȚI 7,284,236 7,332,770 +48,534
TULCEA 6,792,866 6,792,866 0
VRANCEA 5,568,475 6,619,584 +1,051,109
ILFOV 13,718,665 6,108,331 −7,610,334
HARGHITA 4,440,781 4,502,168 +61,387
GIURGIU 495,474 3,932,954 +3,437,480
ALBA 2,358,160 2,706,015 +347,855
IALOMIȚA 1,179,401 1,202,769 +23,368

Another 192.09 Mn. (7.5% 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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