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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 300

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 — 22.55 Mn. ARAD — 23.89 Mn. ARGEȘ — 46.46 Mn. BACĂU — 27.42 Mn. BIHOR — 46.04 Mn. BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD — 12.34 Mn. BOTOȘANI — 13.16 Mn. BRĂILA — 7.47 Mn. BRAȘOV — 23.99 Mn. BUCUREȘTI — 51.42 Mn. BUZĂU — 38.92 Mn. CĂLĂRAȘI — 9.57 Mn. CARAȘ-SEVERIN — 24.62 Mn. CLUJ — 31.24 Mn. CONSTANȚA — 30.22 Mn. COVASNA — 10.17 Mn. DÂMBOVIȚA — 20.93 Mn. DOLJ — 16.21 Mn. GALAȚI — 19.54 Mn. GIURGIU — 10.74 Mn. GORJ — 13.62 Mn. HARGHITA — 10.52 Mn. HUNEDOARA — 33.39 Mn. IALOMIȚA — 7.98 Mn. IAȘI — 52.88 Mn. ILFOV — 16.34 Mn. MARAMUREȘ — 29.57 Mn. MEHEDINȚI — 6.28 Mn. MUREȘ — 39.23 Mn. NEAMȚ — 12.22 Mn. OLT — 15.47 Mn. PRAHOVA — 42.02 Mn. SĂLAJ — 13.70 Mn. SATU MARE — 16.65 Mn. SIBIU — 27.33 Mn. SUCEAVA — 30.76 Mn. TELEORMAN — 13.90 Mn. TIMIȘ — 39.50 Mn. TULCEA — 8.67 Mn. VÂLCEA — 22.07 Mn. VASLUI — 23.16 Mn. VRANCEA — 8.19 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
IAȘI North-East 781,948 9,964,790 535,534 42,376,869 52,877,193 68 5.5%
BUCUREȘTI Bucharest-Ilfov 1,713,832 13,413,305 758,689 37,249,623 51,421,617 30 5.3%
ARGEȘ South-Muntenia 561,864 4,971,253 416,041 41,068,123 46,455,417 83 4.8%
BIHOR North-West 558,623 8,627,035 2,212,747 35,204,029 46,043,811 82 4.8%
PRAHOVA South-Muntenia 683,460 4,573,133 564,363 36,882,373 42,019,869 61 4.3%
TIMIȘ West 672,972 11,775,140 1,069,359 26,654,546 39,499,045 59 4.1%
MUREȘ Centre 519,813 6,058,298 67,329 33,102,525 39,228,152 75 4.0%
BUZĂU South-East 393,136 9,037,569 61,688 29,819,239 38,918,496 99 4.0%
HUNEDOARA West 349,011 14,223,002 457 19,162,755 33,386,214 96 3.4%
CLUJ North-West 701,564 12,508,186 451,446 18,281,754 31,241,386 45 3.2%
SUCEAVA North-East 648,164 5,762,295 259,205 24,737,174 30,758,674 47 3.2%
CONSTANȚA South-East 656,512 10,291,585 768,342 19,158,112 30,218,039 46 3.1%
MARAMUREȘ North-West 451,086 3,983,998 272,243 25,312,897 29,569,138 66 3.1%
BACĂU North-East 590,169 4,776,503 44,234 22,601,758 27,422,495 46 2.8%
SIBIU Centre 396,679 5,239,709 31,260 22,063,484 27,334,453 69 2.8%
CARAȘ-SEVERIN West 240,283 4,408,610 665,508 19,543,157 24,617,275 102 2.5%
BRAȘOV Centre 564,632 8,183,544 60,795 15,746,902 23,991,241 42 2.5%
ARAD West 410,058 6,073,094 204,611 17,616,438 23,894,143 58 2.5%
VASLUI North-East 363,247 2,776,053 578,807 19,809,023 23,163,883 64 2.4%
ALBA Centre 324,901 5,459,755 294,186 16,791,716 22,545,657 69 2.3%
VÂLCEA South-West Oltenia 337,988 3,657,585 417,687 17,997,748 22,073,020 65 2.3%
DÂMBOVIȚA South-Muntenia 475,812 5,720,090 165,883 15,041,319 20,927,292 44 2.2%
GALAȚI South-East 486,387 5,757,991 367,964 13,412,247 19,538,202 40 2.0%
SATU MARE North-West 330,046 4,375,626 893,183 11,380,674 16,649,483 50 1.7%
ILFOV Bucharest-Ilfov 619,461 2,978,956 165,036 13,198,384 16,342,376 26 1.7%
DOLJ South-West Oltenia 594,523 9,146,885 323,876 6,739,183 16,209,944 27 1.7%
OLT South-West Oltenia 372,181 6,266,434 227,140 8,981,145 15,474,719 42 1.6%
TELEORMAN South-Muntenia 308,440 7,414,457 39,874 6,440,943 13,895,274 45 1.4%
SĂLAJ North-West 210,335 3,942,413 6,743 9,755,047 13,704,203 65 1.4%
GORJ South-West Oltenia 306,938 6,979,096 297,400 6,342,217 13,618,713 44 1.4%
BOTOȘANI North-East 386,529 5,364,026 635,197 7,162,111 13,161,334 34 1.4%
BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD North-West 298,129 4,005,687 224 8,337,015 12,342,926 41 1.3%
NEAMȚ North-East 444,666 3,468,103 360,558 8,388,445 12,217,106 27 1.3%
GIURGIU South-Muntenia 258,793 3,915,866 — 6,819,280 10,735,146 41 1.1%
HARGHITA Centre 292,267 4,539,076 453,801 5,523,612 10,516,489 36 1.1%
COVASNA Centre 199,596 5,186,869 37,551 4,943,739 10,168,159 51 1.1%
CĂLĂRAȘI South-Muntenia 277,347 4,285,095 40,925 5,243,928 9,569,948 35 1.0%
TULCEA South-East 186,131 3,690,043 5,310 4,973,820 8,669,173 47 0.9%
VRANCEA South-East 330,157 3,464,189 1,989 4,721,276 8,187,454 25 0.8%
IALOMIȚA South-Muntenia 247,409 4,141,018 54,451 3,786,923 7,982,392 32 0.8%
BRĂILA South-East 269,804 2,591,756 1,196,248 3,682,467 7,470,471 28 0.8%
MEHEDINȚI South-West Oltenia 226,429 2,287,294 355,366 3,640,670 6,283,330 28 0.7%

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
ARGEȘ 41,068,121 44,407,901 +3,339,780
IAȘI 42,376,872 41,206,348 −1,170,524
PRAHOVA 36,882,373 37,303,771 +421,398
MUREȘ 33,102,525 34,663,483 +1,560,958
BUCUREȘTI 37,249,624 34,574,451 −2,675,173
BIHOR 35,204,029 32,115,125 −3,088,904
BUZĂU 29,819,239 28,161,813 −1,657,426
TIMIȘ 26,654,547 27,703,852 +1,049,305
MARAMUREȘ 25,312,896 24,953,646 −359,250
BACĂU 22,601,756 23,613,282 +1,011,526
SIBIU 22,063,485 23,026,368 +962,883
HUNEDOARA 19,162,755 22,820,004 +3,657,249
SUCEAVA 24,737,173 21,875,529 −2,861,644
ARAD 17,616,437 21,325,915 +3,709,478
VASLUI 19,809,021 20,486,078 +677,057
CARAȘ-SEVERIN 19,543,157 20,369,287 +826,130
CLUJ 18,281,751 17,846,423 −435,328
VÂLCEA 17,997,749 16,625,283 −1,372,466
ALBA 16,791,716 15,935,073 −856,643
CONSTANȚA 19,158,112 15,873,451 −3,284,661
GALAȚI 13,412,246 14,600,641 +1,188,395
DÂMBOVIȚA 15,041,319 13,644,639 −1,396,680
BRAȘOV 15,746,902 13,399,501 −2,347,401
ILFOV 13,198,384 12,361,943 −836,441
SATU MARE 11,380,675 10,648,538 −732,137
SĂLAJ 9,755,048 9,755,048 0
BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD 8,337,015 9,058,551 +721,536
NEAMȚ 8,388,444 8,862,092 +473,648
BOTOȘANI 7,162,111 8,052,311 +890,200
OLT 8,981,146 7,657,315 −1,323,831
TELEORMAN 6,440,942 6,826,271 +385,329
TULCEA 4,973,820 6,683,529 +1,709,709
GIURGIU 6,819,279 6,515,199 −304,080
DOLJ 6,739,182 6,140,060 −599,122
HARGHITA 5,523,611 5,972,207 +448,596
GORJ 6,342,219 5,389,029 −953,190
CĂLĂRAȘI 5,243,928 5,197,639 −46,289
COVASNA 4,943,739 4,943,739 0
VRANCEA 4,721,276 4,553,901 −167,375
MEHEDINȚI 3,640,671 3,996,977 +356,306
BRĂILA 3,682,469 3,665,931 −16,538
IALOMIȚA 3,786,923 3,187,596 −599,327

Another 3.69 Mn. (0.5% 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.

The same data, through the API

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  • /api/v1/stats/breakdown
  • /api/v1/stats/lots

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