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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 501

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 — 27.63 Mn. ARAD — 45.11 Mn. ARGEȘ — 54.76 Mn. BACĂU — 66.26 Mn. BIHOR — 59.52 Mn. BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD — 28.99 Mn. BOTOȘANI — 35.93 Mn. BRĂILA — 18.12 Mn. BRAȘOV — 66.75 Mn. BUCUREȘTI — 1.07 Bn. BUZĂU — 41.96 Mn. CĂLĂRAȘI — 24.87 Mn. CARAȘ-SEVERIN — 11.35 Mn. CLUJ — 62.06 Mn. CONSTANȚA — 186.19 Mn. COVASNA — 16.92 Mn. DÂMBOVIȚA — 33.92 Mn. DOLJ — 116.27 Mn. GALAȚI — 46.34 Mn. GIURGIU — 16.89 Mn. GORJ — 22.69 Mn. HARGHITA — 25.88 Mn. HUNEDOARA — 36.86 Mn. IALOMIȚA — 20.30 Mn. IAȘI — 88.76 Mn. ILFOV — 102.61 Mn. MARAMUREȘ — 34.91 Mn. MEHEDINȚI — 17.41 Mn. MUREȘ — 69.19 Mn. NEAMȚ — 39.62 Mn. OLT — 15.30 Mn. PRAHOVA — 334.03 Mn. SĂLAJ — 13.51 Mn. SATU MARE — 21.88 Mn. SIBIU — 94.91 Mn. SUCEAVA — 47.46 Mn. TELEORMAN — 13.77 Mn. TIMIȘ — 86.65 Mn. TULCEA — 41.70 Mn. VÂLCEA — 31.73 Mn. VASLUI — 21.07 Mn. VRANCEA — 38.84 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 1,713,832 171,299,459 67,018,636 835,308,314 1,073,626,409 626 33.0%
PRAHOVA South-Muntenia 683,460 21,122,977 4,405,740 308,506,141 334,034,858 489 10.3%
CONSTANȚA South-East 656,512 57,403,239 9,292,031 119,498,538 186,193,808 284 5.7%
DOLJ South-West Oltenia 594,523 25,682,964 5,659,937 84,925,277 116,268,178 196 3.6%
ILFOV Bucharest-Ilfov 619,461 39,583,320 2,983,955 60,045,211 102,612,486 166 3.2%
SIBIU Centre 396,679 23,252,661 7,972,505 63,682,898 94,908,064 239 2.9%
IAȘI North-East 781,948 38,223,144 6,984,340 43,555,783 88,763,267 114 2.7%
TIMIȘ West 672,972 38,718,651 8,304,058 39,629,104 86,651,813 129 2.7%
MUREȘ Centre 519,813 21,395,734 5,084,338 42,713,318 69,193,390 133 2.1%
BRAȘOV Centre 564,632 40,256,128 5,851,347 20,646,047 66,753,522 118 2.1%
BACĂU North-East 590,169 27,495,330 5,055,012 33,705,961 66,256,303 112 2.0%
CLUJ North-West 701,564 35,547,190 9,432,630 17,079,184 62,059,004 88 1.9%
BIHOR North-West 558,623 22,389,970 5,431,653 31,699,423 59,521,046 107 1.8%
ARGEȘ South-Muntenia 561,864 25,022,628 2,178,177 27,557,069 54,757,874 97 1.7%
SUCEAVA North-East 648,164 25,998,204 5,106,078 16,351,207 47,455,489 73 1.5%
GALAȚI South-East 486,387 26,423,251 7,528,901 12,390,201 46,342,353 95 1.4%
ARAD West 410,058 19,074,396 3,522,920 22,515,926 45,113,242 110 1.4%
BUZĂU South-East 393,136 19,436,586 1,947,742 20,578,601 41,962,929 107 1.3%
TULCEA South-East 186,131 16,047,650 894,277 24,762,772 41,704,699 224 1.3%
NEAMȚ North-East 444,666 17,716,895 1,775,075 20,126,745 39,618,715 89 1.2%
VRANCEA South-East 330,157 25,741,282 719,657 12,383,572 38,844,511 118 1.2%
HUNEDOARA West 349,011 22,077,735 1,136,141 13,650,176 36,864,052 106 1.1%
BOTOȘANI North-East 386,529 16,896,915 1,342,282 17,693,768 35,932,965 93 1.1%
MARAMUREȘ North-West 451,086 19,875,630 4,834,803 10,195,136 34,905,569 77 1.1%
DÂMBOVIȚA South-Muntenia 475,812 25,151,262 2,817,129 5,955,223 33,923,614 71 1.0%
VÂLCEA South-West Oltenia 337,988 17,677,912 4,614,058 9,436,873 31,728,843 94 1.0%
BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD North-West 298,129 18,795,106 1,851,410 8,338,854 28,985,370 97 0.9%
ALBA Centre 324,901 22,426,474 2,886,217 2,315,417 27,628,108 85 0.9%
HARGHITA Centre 292,267 21,346,760 3,228,355 1,306,221 25,881,336 89 0.8%
CĂLĂRAȘI South-Muntenia 277,347 16,043,385 1,882,073 6,948,525 24,873,983 90 0.8%
GORJ South-West Oltenia 306,938 9,995,629 1,791,754 10,903,475 22,690,858 74 0.7%
SATU MARE North-West 330,046 15,513,338 5,623,835 739,639 21,876,812 66 0.7%
VASLUI North-East 363,247 14,404,518 1,932,883 4,732,978 21,070,379 58 0.7%
IALOMIȚA South-Muntenia 247,409 12,421,515 2,754,193 5,120,399 20,296,107 82 0.6%
BRĂILA South-East 269,804 14,098,344 1,134,894 2,882,925 18,116,163 67 0.6%
MEHEDINȚI South-West Oltenia 226,429 12,781,655 611,320 4,018,105 17,411,080 77 0.5%
COVASNA Centre 199,596 15,627,864 1,132,162 161,878 16,921,904 85 0.5%
GIURGIU South-Muntenia 258,793 15,380,182 1,233,889 275,468 16,889,539 65 0.5%
OLT South-West Oltenia 372,181 14,881,268 417,306 — 15,298,574 41 0.5%
TELEORMAN South-Muntenia 308,440 9,831,382 1,488,977 2,450,352 13,770,711 45 0.4%
SĂLAJ North-West 210,335 11,960,131 478,116 1,076,341 13,514,588 64 0.4%
CARAȘ-SEVERIN West 240,283 9,998,516 802,550 547,355 11,348,421 47 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 835,308,312 502,141,798 −333,166,514
PRAHOVA 308,506,141 282,863,091 −25,643,050
CONSTANȚA 119,498,537 153,146,180 +33,647,643
DOLJ 84,925,277 93,882,499 +8,957,222
TIMIȘ 39,629,104 64,290,170 +24,661,066
IAȘI 43,555,785 58,839,222 +15,283,437
MUREȘ 42,713,315 56,255,905 +13,542,590
ILFOV 60,045,211 54,282,498 −5,762,713
SUCEAVA 16,351,208 49,074,117 +32,722,909
DÂMBOVIȚA 5,955,224 40,780,837 +34,825,613
SIBIU 63,682,898 40,685,931 −22,996,967
BIHOR 31,699,425 38,331,675 +6,632,250
BRAȘOV 20,646,045 35,218,940 +14,572,895
NEAMȚ 20,126,746 34,358,900 +14,232,154
ARAD 22,515,926 33,147,986 +10,632,060
ARGEȘ 27,557,068 29,234,280 +1,677,212
TULCEA 24,762,772 27,131,692 +2,368,920
BACĂU 33,705,960 27,034,095 −6,671,865
MARAMUREȘ 10,195,136 25,393,529 +15,198,393
CLUJ 17,079,184 25,357,632 +8,278,448
BUZĂU 20,578,601 25,278,033 +4,699,432
BOTOȘANI 17,693,768 21,814,304 +4,120,536
HUNEDOARA 13,650,176 15,528,470 +1,878,294
VRANCEA 12,383,572 15,259,012 +2,875,440
GALAȚI 12,390,201 13,847,611 +1,457,410
VÂLCEA 9,436,872 11,715,578 +2,278,706
BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD 8,338,859 11,052,177 +2,713,318
CĂLĂRAȘI 6,948,525 8,535,326 +1,586,801
COVASNA 161,878 8,427,774 +8,265,896
GORJ 10,903,472 7,703,604 −3,199,868
CARAȘ-SEVERIN 547,355 7,488,781 +6,941,426
OLT 0 7,318,077 +7,318,077
VASLUI 4,732,977 6,400,472 +1,667,495
MEHEDINȚI 4,018,105 6,140,427 +2,122,322
IALOMIȚA 5,120,400 5,011,333 −109,067
BRĂILA 2,882,925 4,093,748 +1,210,823
SATU MARE 739,639 3,906,453 +3,166,814
TELEORMAN 2,450,352 3,316,764 +866,412
ALBA 2,315,417 3,056,773 +741,356
HARGHITA 1,306,221 2,501,888 +1,195,667
SĂLAJ 1,076,341 1,113,724 +37,383
GIURGIU 275,468 293,497 +18,029

Another 105.16 Mn. (5.3% 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.

The same data, through the API

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