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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 34

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 — 314.29 Mn. ARAD — 582.12 Mn. ARGEȘ — 379.71 Mn. BACĂU — 317.30 Mn. BIHOR — 446.16 Mn. BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD — 239.39 Mn. BOTOȘANI — 213.84 Mn. BRĂILA — 315.44 Mn. BRAȘOV — 1.04 Bn. BUCUREȘTI — 16.59 Bn. BUZĂU — 282.59 Mn. CĂLĂRAȘI — 135.50 Mn. CARAȘ-SEVERIN — 211.82 Mn. CLUJ — 848.85 Mn. CONSTANȚA — 717.61 Mn. COVASNA — 159.44 Mn. DÂMBOVIȚA — 310.61 Mn. DOLJ — 479.32 Mn. GALAȚI — 722.17 Mn. GIURGIU — 148.96 Mn. GORJ — 394.92 Mn. HARGHITA — 233.02 Mn. HUNEDOARA — 352.67 Mn. IALOMIȚA — 200.52 Mn. IAȘI — 986.21 Mn. ILFOV — 3.71 Bn. MARAMUREȘ — 379.85 Mn. MEHEDINȚI — 155.27 Mn. MUREȘ — 536.63 Mn. NEAMȚ — 267.54 Mn. OLT — 168.09 Mn. PRAHOVA — 390.03 Mn. SĂLAJ — 230.65 Mn. SATU MARE — 216.64 Mn. SIBIU — 697.33 Mn. SUCEAVA — 486.70 Mn. TELEORMAN — 113.69 Mn. TIMIȘ — 457.46 Mn. TULCEA — 220.21 Mn. VÂLCEA — 325.61 Mn. VASLUI — 244.12 Mn. VRANCEA — 197.97 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 1,713,832 424,100,807 74,117,189 16,089,591,538 16,587,809,534 9,679 46.8%
ILFOV Bucharest-Ilfov 619,461 126,687,380 5,116,068 3,577,674,353 3,709,477,801 5,988 10.5%
BRAȘOV Centre 564,632 125,982,899 5,530,196 911,705,337 1,043,218,432 1,848 3.0%
IAȘI North-East 781,948 149,339,224 7,706,830 829,159,507 986,205,561 1,261 2.8%
CLUJ North-West 701,564 140,489,271 14,272,138 694,086,188 848,847,597 1,210 2.4%
GALAȚI South-East 486,387 83,300,956 12,280,644 626,590,693 722,172,293 1,485 2.0%
CONSTANȚA South-East 656,512 134,908,609 16,122,031 566,581,289 717,611,929 1,093 2.0%
SIBIU Centre 396,679 90,199,255 10,505,052 596,623,901 697,328,208 1,758 2.0%
ARAD West 410,058 65,205,798 4,404,033 512,513,228 582,123,059 1,420 1.6%
MUREȘ Centre 519,813 102,206,429 9,856,998 424,564,856 536,628,283 1,032 1.5%
SUCEAVA North-East 648,164 128,870,632 4,714,856 353,113,105 486,698,593 751 1.4%
DOLJ South-West Oltenia 594,523 85,866,721 6,609,254 386,843,408 479,319,383 806 1.4%
TIMIȘ West 672,972 128,862,626 10,776,951 317,817,462 457,457,039 680 1.3%
BIHOR North-West 558,623 83,711,213 8,126,147 354,325,635 446,162,995 799 1.3%
GORJ South-West Oltenia 306,938 49,364,582 2,507,910 343,042,872 394,915,364 1,287 1.1%
PRAHOVA South-Muntenia 683,460 92,958,083 4,471,676 292,596,319 390,026,078 571 1.1%
MARAMUREȘ North-West 451,086 97,651,841 6,074,224 276,120,404 379,846,469 842 1.1%
ARGEȘ South-Muntenia 561,864 83,162,210 3,215,179 293,336,598 379,713,987 676 1.1%
HUNEDOARA West 349,011 73,626,359 2,413,546 276,633,533 352,673,438 1,010 1.0%
VÂLCEA South-West Oltenia 337,988 69,277,433 5,998,101 250,335,817 325,611,351 963 0.9%
BACĂU North-East 590,169 85,915,169 4,148,268 227,239,645 317,303,082 538 0.9%
BRĂILA South-East 269,804 47,041,075 1,176,874 267,226,156 315,444,105 1,169 0.9%
ALBA Centre 324,901 69,492,278 5,448,089 239,349,047 314,289,414 967 0.9%
DÂMBOVIȚA South-Muntenia 475,812 66,992,300 3,009,245 240,608,325 310,609,870 653 0.9%
BUZĂU South-East 393,136 82,377,798 3,040,432 197,174,846 282,593,076 719 0.8%
NEAMȚ North-East 444,666 73,255,349 1,782,847 192,502,392 267,540,588 602 0.8%
VASLUI North-East 363,247 66,705,811 2,679,481 174,734,348 244,119,640 672 0.7%
BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD North-West 298,129 52,566,648 4,094,998 182,728,289 239,389,935 803 0.7%
HARGHITA Centre 292,267 72,998,942 4,735,454 155,289,030 233,023,426 797 0.7%
SĂLAJ North-West 210,335 44,273,905 1,089,031 185,283,875 230,646,811 1,097 0.7%
TULCEA South-East 186,131 47,323,932 928,130 171,954,441 220,206,503 1,183 0.6%
SATU MARE North-West 330,046 56,456,138 3,343,697 156,842,730 216,642,565 656 0.6%
BOTOȘANI North-East 386,529 55,705,109 2,250,989 155,884,777 213,840,875 553 0.6%
CARAȘ-SEVERIN West 240,283 55,874,240 428,598 155,517,553 211,820,391 882 0.6%
IALOMIȚA South-Muntenia 247,409 43,383,951 2,366,861 154,766,946 200,517,758 810 0.6%
VRANCEA South-East 330,157 66,563,323 1,881,096 129,526,610 197,971,029 600 0.6%
OLT South-West Oltenia 372,181 59,918,734 1,443,346 106,729,984 168,092,064 452 0.5%
COVASNA Centre 199,596 55,987,435 1,633,369 101,823,951 159,444,755 799 0.5%
MEHEDINȚI South-West Oltenia 226,429 36,075,548 991,038 118,206,262 155,272,848 686 0.4%
GIURGIU South-Muntenia 258,793 51,651,478 1,968,046 95,343,704 148,963,228 576 0.4%
CĂLĂRAȘI South-Muntenia 277,347 48,625,099 2,018,755 84,860,752 135,504,606 489 0.4%
TELEORMAN South-Muntenia 308,440 51,652,211 1,043,639 60,989,809 113,685,659 369 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 16,089,591,545 14,147,348,291 −1,942,243,254
BRAȘOV 911,705,339 2,690,033,666 +1,778,328,327
DOLJ 386,843,411 1,133,557,275 +746,713,864
CONSTANȚA 566,581,289 1,007,987,326 +441,406,037
IAȘI 829,159,508 851,768,889 +22,609,381
ILFOV 3,577,674,360 813,156,510 −2,764,517,850
MUREȘ 424,564,857 622,087,050 +197,522,193
CLUJ 694,086,189 574,179,009 −119,907,180
ARAD 512,513,228 527,545,590 +15,032,362
GALAȚI 626,590,695 477,041,884 −149,548,811
BACĂU 227,239,645 471,962,412 +244,722,767
SIBIU 596,623,900 430,484,309 −166,139,591
TIMIȘ 317,817,466 359,538,102 +41,720,636
BIHOR 354,325,634 350,059,624 −4,266,010
SUCEAVA 353,113,107 349,156,508 −3,956,599
ARGEȘ 293,336,605 326,883,474 +33,546,869
PRAHOVA 292,596,313 311,692,184 +19,095,871
BUZĂU 197,174,846 301,945,094 +104,770,248
BRĂILA 267,226,156 292,479,166 +25,253,010
HUNEDOARA 276,633,533 279,911,082 +3,277,549
MARAMUREȘ 276,120,403 276,504,643 +384,240
NEAMȚ 192,502,399 252,201,208 +59,698,809
VÂLCEA 250,335,817 249,043,229 −1,292,588
ALBA 239,349,047 236,591,563 −2,757,484
DÂMBOVIȚA 240,608,335 231,713,190 −8,895,145
TULCEA 171,954,441 217,800,402 +45,845,961
GORJ 343,042,872 213,804,951 −129,237,921
SĂLAJ 185,283,875 189,264,043 +3,980,168
VASLUI 174,734,348 186,583,210 +11,848,862
BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD 182,728,286 184,915,345 +2,187,059
VRANCEA 129,526,610 165,414,964 +35,888,354
BOTOȘANI 155,884,776 163,249,116 +7,364,340
CARAȘ-SEVERIN 155,517,553 159,092,924 +3,575,371
GIURGIU 95,343,704 157,484,698 +62,140,994
SATU MARE 156,842,730 157,452,351 +609,621
HARGHITA 155,289,030 151,975,377 −3,313,653
IALOMIȚA 154,766,946 136,970,231 −17,796,715
MEHEDINȚI 118,206,261 127,242,842 +9,036,581
OLT 106,729,984 109,057,084 +2,327,100
COVASNA 101,823,950 101,894,272 +70,322
CĂLĂRAȘI 84,860,752 96,760,258 +11,899,506
TELEORMAN 60,989,809 85,365,961 +24,376,152

Another 1.36 Bn. (4.3% 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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