Skip to content

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 343

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 — 12.41 Mn. ARAD — 16.71 Mn. ARGEȘ — 39.00 Mn. BACĂU — 24.70 Mn. BIHOR — 30.98 Mn. BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD — 13.41 Mn. BOTOȘANI — 12.66 Mn. BRĂILA — 26.03 Mn. BRAȘOV — 67.62 Mn. BUCUREȘTI — 379.73 Mn. BUZĂU — 25.59 Mn. CĂLĂRAȘI — 13.28 Mn. CARAȘ-SEVERIN — 10.57 Mn. CLUJ — 115.71 Mn. CONSTANȚA — 49.55 Mn. COVASNA — 9.98 Mn. DÂMBOVIȚA — 24.49 Mn. DOLJ — 51.13 Mn. GALAȚI — 27.15 Mn. GIURGIU — 7.90 Mn. GORJ — 227.92 Mn. HARGHITA — 10.53 Mn. HUNEDOARA — 18.36 Mn. IALOMIȚA — 5.09 Mn. IAȘI — 417.42 Mn. ILFOV — 50.83 Mn. MARAMUREȘ — 23.32 Mn. MEHEDINȚI — 7.87 Mn. MUREȘ — 38.69 Mn. NEAMȚ — 19.47 Mn. OLT — 10.29 Mn. PRAHOVA — 36.85 Mn. SĂLAJ — 14.03 Mn. SATU MARE — 14.29 Mn. SIBIU — 84.48 Mn. SUCEAVA — 17.85 Mn. TELEORMAN — 7.31 Mn. TIMIȘ — 62.72 Mn. TULCEA — 10.54 Mn. VÂLCEA — 25.35 Mn. VASLUI — 12.55 Mn. VRANCEA — 30.78 Mn.
Low spending High spending Boundaries: geoBoundaries

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 27,139,032 2,006,148 388,272,329 417,417,509 534 19.8%
BUCUREȘTI Bucharest-Ilfov 1,713,832 102,843,286 26,898,982 249,985,500 379,727,768 222 18.0%
GORJ South-West Oltenia 306,938 7,464,795 837,252 219,619,257 227,921,304 743 10.8%
CLUJ North-West 701,564 30,551,254 4,360,029 80,799,573 115,710,856 165 5.5%
SIBIU Centre 396,679 21,737,243 2,912,355 59,832,577 84,482,175 213 4.0%
BRAȘOV Centre 564,632 27,204,714 1,230,656 39,185,431 67,620,801 120 3.2%
TIMIȘ West 672,972 26,630,422 3,609,679 32,475,511 62,715,612 93 3.0%
DOLJ South-West Oltenia 594,523 20,872,557 1,221,715 29,040,105 51,134,377 86 2.4%
ILFOV Bucharest-Ilfov 619,461 19,098,213 1,681,595 30,049,255 50,829,063 82 2.4%
CONSTANȚA South-East 656,512 39,452,572 3,583,228 6,517,444 49,553,244 75 2.4%
ARGEȘ South-Muntenia 561,864 14,291,014 961,240 23,750,635 39,002,889 69 1.9%
MUREȘ Centre 519,813 16,502,468 4,149,419 18,042,175 38,694,062 74 1.8%
PRAHOVA South-Muntenia 683,460 15,024,627 1,649,450 20,176,588 36,850,665 54 1.8%
BIHOR North-West 558,623 15,114,011 2,150,719 13,715,756 30,980,486 55 1.5%
VRANCEA South-East 330,157 14,145,786 524,544 16,114,043 30,784,373 93 1.5%
GALAȚI South-East 486,387 20,875,853 2,491,263 3,780,625 27,147,741 56 1.3%
BRĂILA South-East 269,804 13,377,125 267,686 12,382,306 26,027,117 96 1.2%
BUZĂU South-East 393,136 23,059,582 1,015,901 1,514,051 25,589,534 65 1.2%
VÂLCEA South-West Oltenia 337,988 11,391,008 2,498,250 11,455,772 25,345,030 75 1.2%
BACĂU North-East 590,169 13,583,295 1,226,586 9,887,606 24,697,487 42 1.2%
DÂMBOVIȚA South-Muntenia 475,812 12,249,734 531,327 11,712,127 24,493,188 51 1.2%
MARAMUREȘ North-West 451,086 17,698,376 1,891,311 3,730,803 23,320,490 52 1.1%
NEAMȚ North-East 444,666 13,236,061 527,885 5,703,118 19,467,064 44 0.9%
HUNEDOARA West 349,011 11,935,776 669,294 5,755,456 18,360,526 53 0.9%
SUCEAVA North-East 648,164 16,545,626 1,004,981 300,460 17,851,067 28 0.9%
ARAD West 410,058 11,928,927 1,251,714 3,530,736 16,711,377 41 0.8%
SATU MARE North-West 330,046 10,168,056 1,281,363 2,837,070 14,286,489 43 0.7%
SĂLAJ North-West 210,335 13,880,886 144,295 — 14,025,181 67 0.7%
BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD North-West 298,129 10,879,182 1,150,956 1,382,180 13,412,318 45 0.6%
CĂLĂRAȘI South-Muntenia 277,347 12,371,297 910,371 — 13,281,668 48 0.6%
BOTOȘANI North-East 386,529 11,637,791 652,964 369,624 12,660,379 33 0.6%
VASLUI North-East 363,247 11,204,754 609,422 740,302 12,554,478 35 0.6%
ALBA Centre 324,901 11,187,787 524,886 700,550 12,413,223 38 0.6%
CARAȘ-SEVERIN West 240,283 10,408,064 157,466 — 10,565,530 44 0.5%
TULCEA South-East 186,131 9,890,686 142,977 505,678 10,539,341 57 0.5%
HARGHITA Centre 292,267 9,046,018 693,259 787,850 10,527,127 36 0.5%
OLT South-West Oltenia 372,181 7,460,546 281,967 2,547,232 10,289,745 28 0.5%
COVASNA Centre 199,596 9,756,892 224,376 — 9,981,268 50 0.5%
GIURGIU South-Muntenia 258,793 7,367,573 535,247 — 7,902,820 31 0.4%
MEHEDINȚI South-West Oltenia 226,429 4,940,508 226,526 2,700,647 7,867,681 35 0.4%
TELEORMAN South-Muntenia 308,440 7,029,525 284,782 — 7,314,307 24 0.4%
IALOMIȚA South-Muntenia 247,409 4,570,319 515,720 — 5,086,039 21 0.2%

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
IAȘI 388,272,329 386,160,189 −2,112,140
BUCUREȘTI 249,985,499 162,920,758 −87,064,741
GORJ 219,619,256 102,528,899 −117,090,357
CLUJ 80,799,572 84,214,134 +3,414,562
MUREȘ 18,042,176 63,965,586 +45,923,410
BRAȘOV 39,185,432 59,098,928 +19,913,496
TIMIȘ 32,475,511 34,797,242 +2,321,731
DOLJ 29,040,105 33,989,759 +4,949,654
PRAHOVA 20,176,582 31,861,322 +11,684,740
ARGEȘ 23,750,642 24,727,132 +976,490
ILFOV 30,049,257 20,732,095 −9,317,162
VRANCEA 16,114,043 16,209,688 +95,645
SIBIU 59,832,576 15,360,461 −44,472,115
BIHOR 13,715,756 14,277,331 +561,575
BRĂILA 12,382,306 12,634,606 +252,300
DÂMBOVIȚA 11,712,136 12,555,227 +843,091
VÂLCEA 11,455,772 11,703,337 +247,565
BACĂU 9,887,604 10,643,886 +756,282
CONSTANȚA 6,517,444 9,826,668 +3,309,224
NEAMȚ 5,703,125 8,094,711 +2,391,586
ARAD 3,530,736 6,567,544 +3,036,808
HUNEDOARA 5,755,456 6,193,888 +438,432
GALAȚI 3,780,626 4,285,042 +504,416
BUZĂU 1,514,051 4,277,348 +2,763,297
MARAMUREȘ 3,730,802 3,908,534 +177,732
MEHEDINȚI 2,700,647 3,713,274 +1,012,627
SATU MARE 2,837,070 3,631,363 +794,293
CARAȘ-SEVERIN 0 3,131,017 +3,131,017
OLT 2,547,232 2,547,232 0
BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD 1,382,177 2,456,036 +1,073,859
BOTOȘANI 369,624 1,960,304 +1,590,680
SUCEAVA 300,460 1,698,435 +1,397,975
ALBA 700,550 830,973 +130,423
HARGHITA 787,850 787,850 0
VASLUI 740,303 740,303 0
TULCEA 505,678 505,678 0
SĂLAJ 0 343,217 +343,217
IALOMIȚA 0 76,793 +76,793
TELEORMAN 0 15,089 +15,089
CĂLĂRAȘI 0 0 0
COVASNA 0 0 0
GIURGIU 0 0 0

Another 145.93 Mn. (11.1% 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

Every figure on this page comes from the public API, through the endpoints below. The parameters each one takes are in the documentation; each needs an access key.

  • /api/v1/stats/dimensions
  • /api/v1/stats/periods
  • /api/v1/stats/breakdown
  • /api/v1/stats/lots

Open data and API