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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 66

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 — 25.82 Mn. ARAD — 33.06 Mn. ARGEȘ — 45.74 Mn. BACĂU — 40.76 Mn. BIHOR — 129.99 Mn. BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD — 13.86 Mn. BOTOȘANI — 74.57 Mn. BRĂILA — 18.00 Mn. BRAȘOV — 90.20 Mn. BUCUREȘTI — 1.96 Bn. BUZĂU — 25.50 Mn. CĂLĂRAȘI — 42.10 Mn. CARAȘ-SEVERIN — 9.94 Mn. CLUJ — 186.51 Mn. CONSTANȚA — 145.59 Mn. COVASNA — 91.51 Mn. DÂMBOVIȚA — 21.43 Mn. DOLJ — 50.82 Mn. GALAȚI — 50.87 Mn. GIURGIU — 15.30 Mn. GORJ — 43.03 Mn. HARGHITA — 62.49 Mn. HUNEDOARA — 23.45 Mn. IALOMIȚA — 20.04 Mn. IAȘI — 68.13 Mn. ILFOV — 139.08 Mn. MARAMUREȘ — 46.79 Mn. MEHEDINȚI — 13.79 Mn. MUREȘ — 119.61 Mn. NEAMȚ — 35.25 Mn. OLT — 52.57 Mn. PRAHOVA — 69.29 Mn. SĂLAJ — 15.30 Mn. SATU MARE — 17.53 Mn. SIBIU — 220.66 Mn. SUCEAVA — 38.64 Mn. TELEORMAN — 23.78 Mn. TIMIȘ — 97.68 Mn. TULCEA — 20.43 Mn. VÂLCEA — 16.82 Mn. VASLUI — 11.95 Mn. VRANCEA — 23.43 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 1,713,832 205,248,623 46,979,454 1,708,515,450 1,960,743,527 1,144 46.1%
SIBIU Centre 396,679 22,969,230 8,552,950 189,134,661 220,656,841 556 5.2%
CLUJ North-West 701,564 36,338,354 5,023,134 145,153,010 186,514,498 266 4.4%
CONSTANȚA South-East 656,512 34,091,975 7,457,085 104,036,675 145,585,735 222 3.4%
ILFOV Bucharest-Ilfov 619,461 29,899,645 1,311,777 107,870,189 139,081,611 225 3.3%
BIHOR North-West 558,623 18,411,457 4,458,077 107,119,320 129,988,854 233 3.1%
MUREȘ Centre 519,813 14,518,341 4,553,018 100,537,427 119,608,786 230 2.8%
TIMIȘ West 672,972 27,062,965 4,971,158 65,649,088 97,683,211 145 2.3%
COVASNA Centre 199,596 16,778,546 819,960 73,914,481 91,512,987 458 2.2%
BRAȘOV Centre 564,632 29,910,694 4,325,342 55,960,350 90,196,386 160 2.1%
BOTOȘANI North-East 386,529 13,672,498 940,500 59,952,010 74,565,008 193 1.8%
PRAHOVA South-Muntenia 683,460 21,259,788 2,765,904 45,266,436 69,292,128 101 1.6%
IAȘI North-East 781,948 28,990,663 4,392,368 34,751,317 68,134,348 87 1.6%
HARGHITA Centre 292,267 14,159,073 3,357,668 44,976,246 62,492,987 214 1.5%
OLT South-West Oltenia 372,181 14,849,760 333,014 37,390,999 52,573,773 141 1.2%
GALAȚI South-East 486,387 17,543,209 6,323,297 27,004,417 50,870,923 105 1.2%
DOLJ South-West Oltenia 594,523 25,213,859 4,276,677 21,326,366 50,816,902 85 1.2%
MARAMUREȘ North-West 451,086 15,429,758 3,450,107 27,905,178 46,785,043 104 1.1%
ARGEȘ South-Muntenia 561,864 25,158,453 1,320,366 19,261,934 45,740,753 81 1.1%
GORJ South-West Oltenia 306,938 13,639,538 1,421,757 27,970,239 43,031,534 140 1.0%
CĂLĂRAȘI South-Muntenia 277,347 13,892,157 664,256 27,542,662 42,099,075 152 1.0%
BACĂU North-East 590,169 16,495,190 4,175,866 20,086,280 40,757,336 69 1.0%
SUCEAVA North-East 648,164 23,937,535 1,054,710 13,643,161 38,635,406 60 0.9%
NEAMȚ North-East 444,666 19,297,420 1,615,069 14,336,488 35,248,977 79 0.8%
ARAD West 410,058 15,162,493 1,659,748 16,239,078 33,061,319 81 0.8%
ALBA Centre 324,901 15,131,578 2,460,600 8,230,374 25,822,552 79 0.6%
BUZĂU South-East 393,136 17,200,698 1,470,940 6,827,124 25,498,762 65 0.6%
TELEORMAN South-Muntenia 308,440 9,613,517 605,885 13,556,442 23,775,844 77 0.6%
HUNEDOARA West 349,011 19,142,569 1,468,070 2,842,463 23,453,102 67 0.6%
VRANCEA South-East 330,157 21,248,343 250,422 1,935,545 23,434,310 71 0.6%
DÂMBOVIȚA South-Muntenia 475,812 12,463,103 1,949,632 7,017,116 21,429,851 45 0.5%
TULCEA South-East 186,131 15,575,136 373,604 4,477,931 20,426,671 110 0.5%
IALOMIȚA South-Muntenia 247,409 10,203,849 1,081,740 8,751,802 20,037,391 81 0.5%
BRĂILA South-East 269,804 11,921,167 1,229,102 4,848,508 17,998,777 67 0.4%
SATU MARE North-West 330,046 12,135,728 1,999,792 3,389,803 17,525,323 53 0.4%
VÂLCEA South-West Oltenia 337,988 12,315,488 2,709,403 1,792,094 16,816,985 50 0.4%
SĂLAJ North-West 210,335 10,176,722 330,632 4,794,396 15,301,750 73 0.4%
GIURGIU South-Muntenia 258,793 12,040,824 819,298 2,435,201 15,295,323 59 0.4%
BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD North-West 298,129 10,609,996 1,619,808 1,625,608 13,855,412 46 0.3%
MEHEDINȚI South-West Oltenia 226,429 11,189,136 719,945 1,885,857 13,794,938 61 0.3%
VASLUI North-East 363,247 10,845,476 985,607 120,000 11,951,083 33 0.3%
CARAȘ-SEVERIN West 240,283 8,338,800 587,749 1,008,708 9,935,257 41 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
BUCUREȘTI 1,708,364,561 1,533,949,599 −174,414,962
SIBIU 189,134,662 189,095,061 −39,601
CLUJ 145,153,010 142,547,073 −2,605,937
CONSTANȚA 104,036,674 116,578,393 +12,541,719
BIHOR 107,119,320 107,759,482 +640,162
MUREȘ 100,537,427 102,156,818 +1,619,391
COVASNA 73,914,481 74,194,663 +280,182
TIMIȘ 65,649,088 67,090,305 +1,441,217
BOTOȘANI 59,952,010 59,980,241 +28,231
BRAȘOV 55,960,350 58,928,432 +2,968,082
ILFOV 107,870,191 49,362,593 −58,507,598
PRAHOVA 45,266,436 46,523,182 +1,256,746
HARGHITA 44,976,246 45,036,546 +60,300
OLT 37,390,999 39,802,489 +2,411,490
IAȘI 34,751,320 35,441,073 +689,753
MARAMUREȘ 27,905,178 27,986,802 +81,624
CĂLĂRAȘI 27,542,662 27,542,662 0
GALAȚI 27,004,417 25,217,020 −1,787,397
GORJ 27,970,239 22,115,076 −5,855,163
DOLJ 21,326,366 21,609,790 +283,424
ARGEȘ 19,261,934 19,575,737 +313,803
SUCEAVA 13,643,161 17,905,108 +4,261,947
ARAD 16,239,078 16,537,286 +298,208
TELEORMAN 13,556,442 13,583,590 +27,148
BACĂU 20,086,280 11,555,170 −8,531,110
NEAMȚ 14,336,488 10,178,393 −4,158,095
ALBA 8,230,374 8,527,397 +297,023
BUZĂU 6,827,124 8,068,261 +1,241,137
DÂMBOVIȚA 7,017,116 7,086,836 +69,720
BRĂILA 4,848,508 4,852,810 +4,302
SĂLAJ 4,794,399 4,794,399 0
TULCEA 4,477,931 4,716,696 +238,765
SATU MARE 3,389,803 3,462,025 +72,222
HUNEDOARA 2,842,463 3,013,770 +171,307
GIURGIU 2,435,201 2,435,201 0
VÂLCEA 1,792,094 2,325,860 +533,766
VRANCEA 1,935,545 2,016,883 +81,338
MEHEDINȚI 1,885,857 1,885,857 0
BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD 1,625,608 1,786,639 +161,031
CARAȘ-SEVERIN 1,008,708 1,116,243 +107,535
IALOMIȚA 8,751,802 950,219 −7,801,583
VASLUI 120,000 120,000 0

Another 231.52 Mn. (7.3% 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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