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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 77

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 — 57.46 Mn. ARAD — 167.76 Mn. ARGEȘ — 24.98 Mn. BACĂU — 28.53 Mn. BIHOR — 145.83 Mn. BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD — 110.30 Mn. BOTOȘANI — 22.28 Mn. BRĂILA — 8.91 Mn. BRAȘOV — 367.93 Mn. BUCUREȘTI — 7.99 Bn. BUZĂU — 11.93 Mn. CĂLĂRAȘI — 23.33 Mn. CARAȘ-SEVERIN — 23.72 Mn. CLUJ — 107.12 Mn. CONSTANȚA — 97.61 Mn. COVASNA — 30.87 Mn. DÂMBOVIȚA — 14.32 Mn. DOLJ — 71.75 Mn. GALAȚI — 47.73 Mn. GIURGIU — 17.34 Mn. GORJ — 13.50 Mn. HARGHITA — 49.16 Mn. HUNEDOARA — 41.79 Mn. IALOMIȚA — 12.63 Mn. IAȘI — 25.97 Mn. ILFOV — 100.31 Mn. MARAMUREȘ — 31.06 Mn. MEHEDINȚI — 57.92 Mn. MUREȘ — 62.06 Mn. NEAMȚ — 31.97 Mn. OLT — 40.43 Mn. PRAHOVA — 42.31 Mn. SĂLAJ — 16.25 Mn. SATU MARE — 83.52 Mn. SIBIU — 76.31 Mn. SUCEAVA — 90.51 Mn. TELEORMAN — 12.85 Mn. TIMIȘ — 277.37 Mn. TULCEA — 16.14 Mn. VÂLCEA — 27.75 Mn. VASLUI — 9.21 Mn. VRANCEA — 40.91 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 90,431,589 58,674,391 7,837,927,158 7,987,033,138 4,660 75.9%
BRAȘOV Centre 564,632 48,039,818 2,694,066 317,200,074 367,933,958 652 3.5%
TIMIȘ West 672,972 49,315,865 3,581,642 224,468,057 277,365,564 412 2.6%
ARAD West 410,058 60,779,445 2,523,014 104,453,509 167,755,968 409 1.6%
BIHOR North-West 558,623 67,215,658 4,023,296 74,594,468 145,833,422 261 1.4%
BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD North-West 298,129 85,260,567 1,591,096 23,448,675 110,300,338 370 1.1%
CLUJ North-West 701,564 42,951,837 4,407,048 59,760,080 107,118,965 153 1.0%
ILFOV Bucharest-Ilfov 619,461 46,612,297 4,441,278 49,256,110 100,309,685 162 1.0%
CONSTANȚA South-East 656,512 34,862,312 6,384,522 56,366,918 97,613,752 149 0.9%
SUCEAVA North-East 648,164 50,519,131 1,639,692 38,354,169 90,512,992 140 0.9%
SATU MARE North-West 330,046 18,799,646 2,180,265 62,539,349 83,519,260 253 0.8%
SIBIU Centre 396,679 60,188,380 4,879,415 11,237,355 76,305,150 192 0.7%
DOLJ South-West Oltenia 594,523 9,857,715 713,980 61,175,373 71,747,068 121 0.7%
MUREȘ Centre 519,813 44,687,937 4,350,322 13,021,805 62,060,064 119 0.6%
MEHEDINȚI South-West Oltenia 226,429 4,755,944 223,044 52,941,791 57,920,779 256 0.6%
ALBA Centre 324,901 30,753,253 3,667,588 23,042,644 57,463,485 177 0.6%
HARGHITA Centre 292,267 31,080,097 3,021,784 15,055,880 49,157,761 168 0.5%
GALAȚI South-East 486,387 15,988,967 1,499,152 30,243,679 47,731,798 98 0.5%
PRAHOVA South-Muntenia 683,460 21,858,243 914,542 19,533,315 42,306,100 62 0.4%
HUNEDOARA West 349,011 32,729,424 1,261,582 7,802,830 41,793,836 120 0.4%
VRANCEA South-East 330,157 20,188,213 1,150,138 19,568,995 40,907,346 124 0.4%
OLT South-West Oltenia 372,181 9,356,410 430,589 30,638,376 40,425,375 109 0.4%
NEAMȚ North-East 444,666 15,639,747 1,199,311 15,128,389 31,967,447 72 0.3%
MARAMUREȘ North-West 451,086 19,309,895 3,423,820 8,325,521 31,059,236 69 0.3%
COVASNA Centre 199,596 21,615,170 1,182,684 8,070,502 30,868,356 155 0.3%
BACĂU North-East 590,169 8,716,257 1,693,784 18,124,555 28,534,596 48 0.3%
VÂLCEA South-West Oltenia 337,988 8,027,673 510,250 19,214,160 27,752,083 82 0.3%
IAȘI North-East 781,948 18,089,464 818,091 7,065,082 25,972,637 33 0.3%
ARGEȘ South-Muntenia 561,864 14,042,625 1,929,737 9,011,038 24,983,400 44 0.2%
CARAȘ-SEVERIN West 240,283 22,753,607 215,781 749,265 23,718,653 99 0.2%
CĂLĂRAȘI South-Muntenia 277,347 15,451,814 705,186 7,175,492 23,332,492 84 0.2%
BOTOȘANI North-East 386,529 8,670,797 299,529 13,308,020 22,278,346 58 0.2%
GIURGIU South-Muntenia 258,793 16,896,364 365,512 76,942 17,338,818 67 0.2%
SĂLAJ North-West 210,335 15,254,089 860,439 133,300 16,247,828 77 0.2%
TULCEA South-East 186,131 11,631,016 1,144,211 3,361,629 16,136,856 87 0.2%
DÂMBOVIȚA South-Muntenia 475,812 13,667,959 647,759 — 14,315,718 30 0.1%
GORJ South-West Oltenia 306,938 10,926,924 1,048,995 1,523,070 13,498,989 44 0.1%
TELEORMAN South-Muntenia 308,440 5,966,864 27,945 6,859,525 12,854,334 42 0.1%
IALOMIȚA South-Muntenia 247,409 7,184,474 439,780 5,006,955 12,631,209 51 0.1%
BUZĂU South-East 393,136 11,421,401 503,719 — 11,925,120 30 0.1%
VASLUI North-East 363,247 4,319,034 1,105,712 3,787,032 9,211,778 25 0.1%
BRĂILA South-East 269,804 7,030,889 1,008,600 865,629 8,905,118 33 0.1%

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 7,837,927,199 5,497,125,130 −2,340,802,069
SUCEAVA 38,354,166 564,228,263 +525,874,097
BRAȘOV 317,200,071 361,826,814 +44,626,743
TIMIȘ 224,468,057 291,563,530 +67,095,473
NEAMȚ 15,128,389 192,621,177 +177,492,788
MUREȘ 13,021,804 186,884,370 +173,862,566
ARAD 104,453,509 130,750,212 +26,296,703
BIHOR 74,594,468 127,271,158 +52,676,690
CARAȘ-SEVERIN 749,265 125,021,654 +124,272,389
DOLJ 61,175,374 116,759,331 +55,583,957
BACĂU 18,124,555 112,638,944 +94,514,389
SIBIU 11,237,354 98,061,832 +86,824,478
CLUJ 59,760,081 93,648,009 +33,887,928
OLT 30,638,376 92,484,687 +61,846,311
TULCEA 3,361,629 90,227,436 +86,865,807
PRAHOVA 19,533,315 85,185,769 +65,652,454
MARAMUREȘ 8,325,521 82,887,330 +74,561,809
MEHEDINȚI 52,941,791 80,136,599 +27,194,808
SATU MARE 62,539,349 67,882,125 +5,342,776
CONSTANȚA 56,366,918 67,285,138 +10,918,220
HARGHITA 15,055,880 61,185,195 +46,129,315
ARGEȘ 9,011,038 58,228,660 +49,217,622
GALAȚI 30,243,679 53,967,083 +23,723,404
ILFOV 49,256,112 51,143,719 +1,887,607
ALBA 23,042,644 48,233,236 +25,190,592
HUNEDOARA 7,802,830 47,097,938 +39,295,108
VRANCEA 19,568,995 46,672,438 +27,103,443
COVASNA 8,070,502 44,115,808 +36,045,306
TELEORMAN 6,859,525 39,282,597 +32,423,072
GIURGIU 76,942 34,784,667 +34,707,725
IAȘI 7,065,082 28,863,520 +21,798,438
BOTOȘANI 13,308,020 28,206,084 +14,898,064
VÂLCEA 19,214,160 27,541,226 +8,327,066
BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD 23,448,675 27,536,516 +4,087,841
CĂLĂRAȘI 7,175,492 25,679,191 +18,503,699
DÂMBOVIȚA 0 24,583,469 +24,583,469
GORJ 1,523,070 23,213,526 +21,690,456
VASLUI 3,787,032 17,238,845 +13,451,813
BUZĂU 0 14,819,468 +14,819,468
BRĂILA 865,629 11,664,347 +10,798,718
SĂLAJ 133,300 5,377,422 +5,244,122
IALOMIȚA 5,006,955 4,343,254 −663,701

Another 72.15 Mn. (0.8% 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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