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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 302

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 — 87.89 Mn. ARAD — 111.06 Mn. ARGEȘ — 87.38 Mn. BACĂU — 120.78 Mn. BIHOR — 167.04 Mn. BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD — 71.37 Mn. BOTOȘANI — 49.85 Mn. BRĂILA — 51.39 Mn. BRAȘOV — 182.19 Mn. BUCUREȘTI — 8.28 Bn. BUZĂU — 66.20 Mn. CĂLĂRAȘI — 59.81 Mn. CARAȘ-SEVERIN — 36.88 Mn. CLUJ — 326.37 Mn. CONSTANȚA — 188.46 Mn. COVASNA — 48.85 Mn. DÂMBOVIȚA — 94.06 Mn. DOLJ — 184.36 Mn. GALAȚI — 124.73 Mn. GIURGIU — 36.86 Mn. GORJ — 61.20 Mn. HARGHITA — 80.49 Mn. HUNEDOARA — 81.23 Mn. IALOMIȚA — 48.79 Mn. IAȘI — 220.48 Mn. ILFOV — 794.48 Mn. MARAMUREȘ — 97.58 Mn. MEHEDINȚI — 53.56 Mn. MUREȘ — 154.54 Mn. NEAMȚ — 90.09 Mn. OLT — 72.84 Mn. PRAHOVA — 164.38 Mn. SĂLAJ — 50.87 Mn. SATU MARE — 61.19 Mn. SIBIU — 211.24 Mn. SUCEAVA — 147.11 Mn. TELEORMAN — 47.85 Mn. TIMIȘ — 221.51 Mn. TULCEA — 42.52 Mn. VÂLCEA — 61.39 Mn. VASLUI — 53.76 Mn. VRANCEA — 53.35 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 1,713,832 504,206,890 48,713,895 7,729,223,586 8,282,144,371 4,833 62.5%
ILFOV Bucharest-Ilfov 619,461 74,994,927 2,049,623 717,431,158 794,475,708 1,283 6.0%
CLUJ North-West 701,564 112,026,110 8,791,395 205,551,136 326,368,641 465 2.5%
TIMIȘ West 672,972 85,326,020 4,268,841 131,918,756 221,513,617 329 1.7%
IAȘI North-East 781,948 83,951,214 4,475,405 132,054,173 220,480,792 282 1.7%
SIBIU Centre 396,679 44,918,323 4,474,894 161,848,301 211,241,518 533 1.6%
CONSTANȚA South-East 656,512 71,282,243 6,976,981 110,204,499 188,463,723 287 1.4%
DOLJ South-West Oltenia 594,523 50,095,098 3,303,389 130,961,441 184,359,928 310 1.4%
BRAȘOV Centre 564,632 64,553,104 2,136,241 115,499,578 182,188,923 323 1.4%
BIHOR North-West 558,623 54,441,758 5,634,239 106,965,879 167,041,876 299 1.3%
PRAHOVA South-Muntenia 683,460 51,038,096 2,199,358 111,141,862 164,379,316 241 1.2%
MUREȘ Centre 519,813 50,271,456 1,541,045 102,730,204 154,542,705 297 1.2%
SUCEAVA North-East 648,164 57,261,319 1,323,641 88,521,526 147,106,486 227 1.1%
GALAȚI South-East 486,387 43,915,492 2,712,127 78,104,338 124,731,957 256 0.9%
BACĂU North-East 590,169 42,397,847 1,007,688 77,379,272 120,784,807 205 0.9%
ARAD West 410,058 34,619,065 1,393,793 75,045,880 111,058,738 271 0.8%
MARAMUREȘ North-West 451,086 38,742,711 3,003,964 55,837,577 97,584,252 216 0.7%
DÂMBOVIȚA South-Muntenia 475,812 35,156,557 1,113,746 57,793,271 94,063,574 198 0.7%
NEAMȚ North-East 444,666 34,952,685 1,346,870 53,788,726 90,088,281 203 0.7%
ALBA Centre 324,901 37,552,296 940,779 49,397,223 87,890,298 271 0.7%
ARGEȘ South-Muntenia 561,864 37,572,908 1,794,778 48,016,089 87,383,775 156 0.7%
HUNEDOARA West 349,011 36,814,858 1,022,485 43,389,174 81,226,517 233 0.6%
HARGHITA Centre 292,267 26,503,747 2,473,024 51,515,611 80,492,382 275 0.6%
OLT South-West Oltenia 372,181 31,208,269 1,176,608 40,454,244 72,839,121 196 0.6%
BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD North-West 298,129 24,942,223 1,052,852 45,372,471 71,367,546 239 0.5%
BUZĂU South-East 393,136 35,801,819 1,057,318 29,341,548 66,200,685 168 0.5%
VÂLCEA South-West Oltenia 337,988 25,376,490 1,089,325 34,924,575 61,390,390 182 0.5%
GORJ South-West Oltenia 306,938 24,360,575 1,113,602 35,723,074 61,197,251 199 0.5%
SATU MARE North-West 330,046 26,789,067 2,076,525 32,326,339 61,191,931 185 0.5%
CĂLĂRAȘI South-Muntenia 277,347 27,686,094 198,408 31,921,035 59,805,537 216 0.5%
VASLUI North-East 363,247 26,215,639 1,444,337 26,098,987 53,758,963 148 0.4%
MEHEDINȚI South-West Oltenia 226,429 18,235,710 599,839 34,727,175 53,562,724 237 0.4%
VRANCEA South-East 330,157 29,223,779 800,016 23,322,157 53,345,952 162 0.4%
BRĂILA South-East 269,804 23,535,658 1,168,711 26,685,214 51,389,583 190 0.4%
SĂLAJ North-West 210,335 19,828,957 567,888 30,477,333 50,874,178 242 0.4%
BOTOȘANI North-East 386,529 28,222,724 365,594 21,258,106 49,846,424 129 0.4%
COVASNA Centre 199,596 20,002,559 255,415 28,590,882 48,848,856 245 0.4%
IALOMIȚA South-Muntenia 247,409 19,729,984 655,081 28,409,580 48,794,645 197 0.4%
TELEORMAN South-Muntenia 308,440 21,100,430 496,431 26,256,285 47,853,146 155 0.4%
TULCEA South-East 186,131 23,384,144 152,092 18,982,135 42,518,371 228 0.3%
CARAȘ-SEVERIN West 240,283 16,295,197 1,405,799 19,183,536 36,884,532 154 0.3%
GIURGIU South-Muntenia 258,793 19,660,656 1,269,724 15,933,160 36,863,540 142 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 7,729,223,573 7,358,157,885 −371,065,688
ILFOV 717,431,159 691,495,071 −25,936,088
CLUJ 205,551,144 205,236,461 −314,683
SIBIU 161,848,307 158,686,404 −3,161,903
TIMIȘ 131,918,756 130,565,291 −1,353,465
BRAȘOV 115,499,578 127,596,114 +12,096,536
DOLJ 130,961,441 124,444,844 −6,516,597
IAȘI 132,054,166 121,731,359 −10,322,807
BIHOR 106,965,878 113,895,575 +6,929,697
CONSTANȚA 110,204,500 112,001,301 +1,796,801
PRAHOVA 111,141,861 108,669,969 −2,471,892
MUREȘ 102,730,204 104,399,443 +1,669,239
SUCEAVA 88,521,526 90,505,669 +1,984,143
BACĂU 77,379,273 79,398,250 +2,018,977
ARAD 75,045,881 72,077,908 −2,967,973
GALAȚI 78,104,339 63,079,697 −15,024,642
MARAMUREȘ 55,837,576 59,221,701 +3,384,125
VÂLCEA 34,924,575 55,155,728 +20,231,153
DÂMBOVIȚA 57,793,271 54,499,157 −3,294,114
NEAMȚ 53,788,729 53,891,164 +102,435
ARGEȘ 48,016,089 51,030,851 +3,014,762
HARGHITA 51,515,611 50,884,579 −631,032
ALBA 49,397,222 48,611,114 −786,108
HUNEDOARA 43,389,174 47,233,236 +3,844,062
BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD 45,372,472 45,046,877 −325,595
OLT 40,454,242 42,241,348 +1,787,106
GORJ 35,723,071 36,336,252 +613,181
TULCEA 18,982,135 34,352,412 +15,370,277
MEHEDINȚI 34,727,175 33,906,775 −820,400
CĂLĂRAȘI 31,921,035 32,475,440 +554,405
SĂLAJ 30,477,334 30,985,633 +508,299
SATU MARE 32,326,339 30,732,492 −1,593,847
VASLUI 26,098,989 30,423,751 +4,324,762
BUZĂU 29,341,547 30,132,106 +790,559
TELEORMAN 26,256,285 29,239,019 +2,982,734
IALOMIȚA 28,409,580 27,781,886 −627,694
COVASNA 28,590,883 27,265,343 −1,325,540
BOTOȘANI 21,258,106 24,584,695 +3,326,589
VRANCEA 23,322,159 24,545,910 +1,223,751
BRĂILA 26,685,214 20,336,350 −6,348,864
CARAȘ-SEVERIN 19,183,536 18,643,359 −540,177
GIURGIU 15,933,160 15,584,544 −348,616

Another 367.22 Mn. (3.3% 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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