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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 323

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 — 14.16 Mn. ARAD — 20.48 Mn. ARGEȘ — 39.24 Mn. BACĂU — 31.91 Mn. BIHOR — 39.95 Mn. BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD — 12.24 Mn. BOTOȘANI — 15.19 Mn. BRĂILA — 19.28 Mn. BRAȘOV — 73.29 Mn. BUCUREȘTI — 656.70 Mn. BUZĂU — 20.60 Mn. CĂLĂRAȘI — 18.98 Mn. CARAȘ-SEVERIN — 12.63 Mn. CLUJ — 64.08 Mn. CONSTANȚA — 65.79 Mn. COVASNA — 11.95 Mn. DÂMBOVIȚA — 30.59 Mn. DOLJ — 33.40 Mn. GALAȚI — 25.72 Mn. GIURGIU — 14.60 Mn. GORJ — 15.46 Mn. HARGHITA — 13.09 Mn. HUNEDOARA — 19.81 Mn. IALOMIȚA — 32.71 Mn. IAȘI — 51.93 Mn. ILFOV — 53.66 Mn. MARAMUREȘ — 21.49 Mn. MEHEDINȚI — 10.70 Mn. MUREȘ — 30.20 Mn. NEAMȚ — 32.30 Mn. OLT — 28.48 Mn. PRAHOVA — 37.75 Mn. SĂLAJ — 6.90 Mn. SATU MARE — 12.51 Mn. SIBIU — 63.22 Mn. SUCEAVA — 36.82 Mn. TELEORMAN — 23.18 Mn. TIMIȘ — 53.47 Mn. TULCEA — 18.18 Mn. VÂLCEA — 14.29 Mn. VASLUI — 26.85 Mn. VRANCEA — 27.62 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 1,713,832 149,861,161 20,937,557 485,900,768 656,699,486 383 35.5%
BRAȘOV Centre 564,632 27,601,419 678,625 45,014,377 73,294,421 130 4.0%
CONSTANȚA South-East 656,512 35,555,546 3,217,182 27,013,412 65,786,140 100 3.6%
CLUJ North-West 701,564 40,787,951 2,199,416 21,087,765 64,075,132 91 3.5%
SIBIU Centre 396,679 22,129,807 2,267,608 38,825,964 63,223,379 159 3.4%
ILFOV Bucharest-Ilfov 619,461 26,762,091 761,232 26,133,401 53,656,724 87 2.9%
TIMIȘ West 672,972 31,290,681 1,389,238 20,791,202 53,471,121 79 2.9%
IAȘI North-East 781,948 34,035,501 1,015,825 16,882,597 51,933,923 66 2.8%
BIHOR North-West 558,623 26,363,083 2,893,254 10,691,033 39,947,370 72 2.2%
ARGEȘ South-Muntenia 561,864 28,731,298 972,734 9,534,479 39,238,511 70 2.1%
PRAHOVA South-Muntenia 683,460 25,531,714 1,275,980 10,943,205 37,750,899 55 2.0%
SUCEAVA North-East 648,164 27,045,929 952,371 8,821,607 36,819,907 57 2.0%
DOLJ South-West Oltenia 594,523 25,814,478 896,131 6,693,394 33,404,003 56 1.8%
IALOMIȚA South-Muntenia 247,409 13,876,287 139,931 18,697,635 32,713,853 132 1.8%
NEAMȚ North-East 444,666 15,638,090 778,986 15,880,139 32,297,215 73 1.7%
BACĂU North-East 590,169 24,986,558 930,830 5,993,879 31,911,267 54 1.7%
DÂMBOVIȚA South-Muntenia 475,812 24,309,821 855,942 5,427,633 30,593,396 64 1.7%
MUREȘ Centre 519,813 28,083,696 1,317,689 801,970 30,203,355 58 1.6%
OLT South-West Oltenia 372,181 18,344,795 785,127 9,345,180 28,475,102 77 1.5%
VRANCEA South-East 330,157 15,518,579 58,347 12,045,862 27,622,788 84 1.5%
VASLUI North-East 363,247 22,240,499 1,217,094 3,388,067 26,845,660 74 1.5%
GALAȚI South-East 486,387 17,800,590 669,211 7,251,435 25,721,236 53 1.4%
TELEORMAN South-Muntenia 308,440 19,453,931 78,961 3,651,045 23,183,937 75 1.3%
MARAMUREȘ North-West 451,086 16,741,704 560,792 4,184,116 21,486,612 48 1.2%
BUZĂU South-East 393,136 18,237,655 207,086 2,159,012 20,603,753 52 1.1%
ARAD West 410,058 16,459,474 774,383 3,241,863 20,475,720 50 1.1%
HUNEDOARA West 349,011 14,112,445 277,344 5,421,035 19,810,824 57 1.1%
BRĂILA South-East 269,804 15,043,384 601,197 3,630,532 19,275,113 71 1.0%
CĂLĂRAȘI South-Muntenia 277,347 13,503,229 517,975 4,959,716 18,980,920 68 1.0%
TULCEA South-East 186,131 9,593,360 9,420 8,572,821 18,175,601 98 1.0%
GORJ South-West Oltenia 306,938 10,540,419 350,911 4,566,166 15,457,496 50 0.8%
BOTOȘANI North-East 386,529 12,216,202 442,338 2,530,691 15,189,231 39 0.8%
GIURGIU South-Muntenia 258,793 13,242,681 344,220 1,012,745 14,599,646 56 0.8%
VÂLCEA South-West Oltenia 337,988 11,822,982 545,026 1,925,399 14,293,407 42 0.8%
ALBA Centre 324,901 12,621,091 554,920 987,255 14,163,266 44 0.8%
HARGHITA Centre 292,267 11,248,559 501,473 1,341,228 13,091,260 45 0.7%
CARAȘ-SEVERIN West 240,283 9,135,002 154,264 3,336,457 12,625,723 53 0.7%
SATU MARE North-West 330,046 10,704,565 420,564 1,384,514 12,509,643 38 0.7%
BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD North-West 298,129 10,607,988 420,080 1,211,686 12,239,754 41 0.7%
COVASNA Centre 199,596 9,970,307 421,895 1,558,259 11,950,461 60 0.7%
MEHEDINȚI South-West Oltenia 226,429 9,028,473 121,898 1,552,721 10,703,092 47 0.6%
SĂLAJ North-West 210,335 6,686,032 202,760 13,600 6,902,392 33 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 485,900,768 328,600,443 −157,300,325
ILFOV 26,133,401 54,745,714 +28,612,313
CONSTANȚA 27,013,411 45,288,295 +18,274,884
BRAȘOV 45,014,378 43,957,697 −1,056,681
SIBIU 38,825,966 38,900,448 +74,482
CLUJ 21,087,765 29,263,880 +8,176,115
TIMIȘ 20,791,203 21,272,559 +481,356
IAȘI 16,882,600 15,270,013 −1,612,587
BACĂU 5,993,879 14,396,852 +8,402,973
TULCEA 8,572,821 12,605,386 +4,032,565
PRAHOVA 10,943,205 11,704,203 +760,998
VRANCEA 12,045,862 11,645,902 −399,960
BIHOR 10,691,033 10,691,033 0
ARGEȘ 9,534,479 9,842,444 +307,965
SUCEAVA 8,821,606 8,387,982 −433,624
GALAȚI 7,251,435 7,791,949 +540,514
OLT 9,345,180 7,726,769 −1,618,411
NEAMȚ 15,880,139 7,625,769 −8,254,370
SATU MARE 1,384,514 7,393,231 +6,008,717
HUNEDOARA 5,421,035 7,143,244 +1,722,209
DOLJ 6,693,396 6,804,954 +111,558
IALOMIȚA 18,697,635 5,098,529 −13,599,106
GORJ 4,566,166 4,580,942 +14,776
DÂMBOVIȚA 5,427,633 4,571,131 −856,502
CĂLĂRAȘI 4,959,717 4,048,919 −910,798
MARAMUREȘ 4,184,116 3,870,566 −313,550
BRĂILA 3,630,532 3,751,953 +121,421
VASLUI 3,388,067 3,396,909 +8,842
CARAȘ-SEVERIN 3,336,459 3,336,459 0
ARAD 3,241,863 3,241,863 0
BOTOȘANI 2,530,691 2,564,190 +33,499
BUZĂU 2,159,012 2,159,012 0
TELEORMAN 3,651,045 1,818,385 −1,832,660
COVASNA 1,558,258 1,558,258 0
MEHEDINȚI 1,552,721 1,552,721 0
ALBA 987,256 1,360,660 +373,404
BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD 1,211,686 1,211,686 0
HARGHITA 1,341,228 1,141,242 −199,986
VÂLCEA 1,925,399 1,088,686 −836,713
GIURGIU 1,012,745 1,012,745 0
MUREȘ 801,973 984,882 +182,909
SĂLAJ 13,600 13,600 0

Another 110.98 Mn. (12.8% 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/dimensions
  • /api/v1/stats/periods
  • /api/v1/stats/breakdown
  • /api/v1/stats/lots

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