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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 44

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 — 115.35 Mn. ARAD — 119.00 Mn. ARGEȘ — 223.34 Mn. BACĂU — 182.58 Mn. BIHOR — 169.98 Mn. BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD — 95.68 Mn. BOTOȘANI — 92.48 Mn. BRĂILA — 127.80 Mn. BRAȘOV — 299.45 Mn. BUCUREȘTI — 3.80 Bn. BUZĂU — 133.54 Mn. CĂLĂRAȘI — 74.23 Mn. CARAȘ-SEVERIN — 62.95 Mn. CLUJ — 643.97 Mn. CONSTANȚA — 467.23 Mn. COVASNA — 72.77 Mn. DÂMBOVIȚA — 134.02 Mn. DOLJ — 255.18 Mn. GALAȚI — 184.24 Mn. GIURGIU — 61.18 Mn. GORJ — 416.51 Mn. HARGHITA — 87.13 Mn. HUNEDOARA — 200.35 Mn. IALOMIȚA — 58.86 Mn. IAȘI — 362.90 Mn. ILFOV — 356.60 Mn. MARAMUREȘ — 198.13 Mn. MEHEDINȚI — 54.64 Mn. MUREȘ — 397.80 Mn. NEAMȚ — 101.72 Mn. OLT — 128.86 Mn. PRAHOVA — 175.67 Mn. SĂLAJ — 86.90 Mn. SATU MARE — 95.38 Mn. SIBIU — 1.25 Bn. SUCEAVA — 172.16 Mn. TELEORMAN — 96.17 Mn. TIMIȘ — 390.81 Mn. TULCEA — 61.18 Mn. VÂLCEA — 155.22 Mn. VASLUI — 95.51 Mn. VRANCEA — 128.22 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 1,713,832 649,660,876 129,408,965 3,020,995,072 3,800,064,913 2,217 30.7%
SIBIU Centre 396,679 133,395,796 18,233,932 1,101,191,634 1,252,821,362 3,158 10.1%
CLUJ North-West 701,564 224,960,653 22,483,413 396,521,691 643,965,757 918 5.2%
CONSTANȚA South-East 656,512 284,666,721 21,530,374 161,029,334 467,226,429 712 3.8%
GORJ South-West Oltenia 306,938 62,882,315 9,530,745 344,101,891 416,514,951 1,357 3.4%
MUREȘ Centre 519,813 137,047,099 9,054,954 251,697,105 397,799,158 765 3.2%
TIMIȘ West 672,972 173,225,448 18,824,775 198,757,797 390,808,020 581 3.2%
IAȘI North-East 781,948 225,903,857 8,565,849 128,429,107 362,898,813 464 2.9%
ILFOV Bucharest-Ilfov 619,461 159,580,657 6,269,946 190,750,215 356,600,818 576 2.9%
BRAȘOV Centre 564,632 166,252,010 9,711,806 123,486,053 299,449,869 530 2.4%
DOLJ South-West Oltenia 594,523 127,483,853 11,052,315 116,641,572 255,177,740 429 2.1%
ARGEȘ South-Muntenia 561,864 125,591,254 5,452,628 92,292,458 223,336,340 397 1.8%
HUNEDOARA West 349,011 88,785,807 5,895,772 105,669,649 200,351,228 574 1.6%
MARAMUREȘ North-West 451,086 90,828,856 13,628,997 93,676,574 198,134,427 439 1.6%
GALAȚI South-East 486,387 105,836,189 10,280,516 68,119,624 184,236,329 379 1.5%
BACĂU North-East 590,169 129,667,723 10,885,341 42,030,819 182,583,883 309 1.5%
PRAHOVA South-Muntenia 683,460 125,344,450 6,898,797 43,426,248 175,669,495 257 1.4%
SUCEAVA North-East 648,164 151,035,370 4,987,033 16,142,060 172,164,463 266 1.4%
BIHOR North-West 558,623 118,172,468 21,393,916 30,413,194 169,979,578 304 1.4%
VÂLCEA South-West Oltenia 337,988 86,796,323 13,216,991 55,204,431 155,217,745 459 1.3%
DÂMBOVIȚA South-Muntenia 475,812 78,658,431 5,278,083 50,078,957 134,015,471 282 1.1%
BUZĂU South-East 393,136 116,518,820 4,208,078 12,817,313 133,544,211 340 1.1%
OLT South-West Oltenia 372,181 74,799,153 1,201,265 52,858,218 128,858,636 346 1.0%
VRANCEA South-East 330,157 96,315,178 1,917,682 29,984,589 128,217,449 388 1.0%
BRĂILA South-East 269,804 73,961,510 2,168,970 51,673,325 127,803,805 474 1.0%
ARAD West 410,058 91,721,327 4,738,805 22,540,007 119,000,139 290 1.0%
ALBA Centre 324,901 94,702,122 6,122,076 14,526,540 115,350,738 355 0.9%
NEAMȚ North-East 444,666 78,169,792 3,969,273 19,585,119 101,724,184 229 0.8%
TELEORMAN South-Muntenia 308,440 60,990,458 2,718,943 32,461,172 96,170,573 312 0.8%
BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD North-West 298,129 66,567,214 7,119,214 21,990,673 95,677,101 321 0.8%
VASLUI North-East 363,247 75,596,912 7,981,776 11,926,581 95,505,269 263 0.8%
SATU MARE North-West 330,046 78,904,759 5,735,551 10,738,973 95,379,283 289 0.8%
BOTOȘANI North-East 386,529 71,909,962 4,112,735 16,457,658 92,480,355 239 0.8%
HARGHITA Centre 292,267 80,283,768 4,787,192 2,062,691 87,133,651 298 0.7%
SĂLAJ North-West 210,335 53,074,910 2,626,483 31,202,166 86,903,559 413 0.7%
CĂLĂRAȘI South-Muntenia 277,347 64,479,562 4,348,024 5,399,924 74,227,510 268 0.6%
COVASNA Centre 199,596 68,181,641 2,045,954 2,546,801 72,774,396 365 0.6%
CARAȘ-SEVERIN West 240,283 55,088,652 1,143,503 6,714,877 62,947,032 262 0.5%
GIURGIU South-Muntenia 258,793 45,035,681 2,479,047 13,665,378 61,180,106 236 0.5%
TULCEA South-East 186,131 58,076,859 540,021 2,560,674 61,177,554 329 0.5%
IALOMIȚA South-Muntenia 247,409 55,255,835 2,020,820 1,585,976 58,862,631 238 0.5%
MEHEDINȚI South-West Oltenia 226,429 42,296,364 1,682,105 10,662,895 54,641,364 241 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 3,020,995,075 1,704,735,836 −1,316,259,239
SIBIU 1,101,191,638 780,220,913 −320,970,725
CLUJ 396,521,686 446,078,424 +49,556,738
TIMIȘ 198,757,797 329,569,658 +130,811,861
ILFOV 190,750,213 305,623,868 +114,873,655
GORJ 344,101,890 263,227,161 −80,874,729
BRAȘOV 123,486,054 261,503,364 +138,017,310
MUREȘ 251,697,105 230,928,800 −20,768,305
CONSTANȚA 161,029,338 223,010,552 +61,981,214
HUNEDOARA 105,669,649 200,724,685 +95,055,036
IAȘI 128,429,112 174,930,534 +46,501,422
DOLJ 116,641,571 156,369,964 +39,728,393
MARAMUREȘ 93,676,573 111,754,992 +18,078,419
ARGEȘ 92,292,456 97,226,225 +4,933,769
PRAHOVA 43,426,248 75,696,321 +32,270,073
BRĂILA 51,673,328 72,399,581 +20,726,253
GALAȚI 68,119,621 66,973,458 −1,146,163
OLT 52,858,219 61,767,620 +8,909,401
VÂLCEA 55,204,432 59,374,734 +4,170,302
BACĂU 42,030,820 55,294,968 +13,264,148
BIHOR 30,413,191 45,640,818 +15,227,627
TELEORMAN 32,461,172 36,059,346 +3,598,174
VRANCEA 29,984,589 34,214,298 +4,229,709
BUZĂU 12,817,314 32,539,076 +19,721,762
MEHEDINȚI 10,662,895 31,788,646 +21,125,751
SĂLAJ 31,202,166 31,622,465 +420,299
NEAMȚ 19,585,118 27,150,539 +7,565,421
DÂMBOVIȚA 50,078,957 26,736,612 −23,342,345
BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD 21,990,680 25,450,859 +3,460,179
VASLUI 11,926,581 25,074,842 +13,148,261
ARAD 22,540,007 22,912,464 +372,457
ALBA 14,526,540 17,943,639 +3,417,099
GIURGIU 13,665,378 17,540,408 +3,875,030
SUCEAVA 16,142,060 15,977,799 −164,261
BOTOȘANI 16,457,658 15,499,750 −957,908
SATU MARE 10,738,973 13,411,672 +2,672,699
TULCEA 2,560,674 12,690,740 +10,130,066
CĂLĂRAȘI 5,399,924 11,848,715 +6,448,791
CARAȘ-SEVERIN 6,714,877 8,937,971 +2,223,094
COVASNA 2,546,801 8,480,785 +5,933,984
IALOMIȚA 1,585,976 5,845,985 +4,260,009
HARGHITA 2,062,691 4,049,998 +1,987,307

Another 855.79 Mn. (12.2% 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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