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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 772

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 — 42.70 Mn. ARAD — 47.92 Mn. ARGEȘ — 17.42 Mn. BACĂU — 9.34 Mn. BIHOR — 63.15 Mn. BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD — 102.71 Mn. BOTOȘANI — 10.83 Mn. BRĂILA — 2.53 Mn. BRAȘOV — 273.35 Mn. BUCUREȘTI — 2.40 Bn. BUZĂU — 4.18 Mn. CĂLĂRAȘI — 2.93 Mn. CARAȘ-SEVERIN — 13.59 Mn. CLUJ — 59.16 Mn. CONSTANȚA — 53.28 Mn. COVASNA — 22.93 Mn. DÂMBOVIȚA — 6.65 Mn. DOLJ — 44.76 Mn. GALAȚI — 27.59 Mn. GIURGIU — 5.36 Mn. GORJ — 3.06 Mn. HARGHITA — 32.49 Mn. HUNEDOARA — 22.97 Mn. IALOMIȚA — 7.68 Mn. IAȘI — 7.92 Mn. ILFOV — 23.55 Mn. MARAMUREȘ — 23.49 Mn. MEHEDINȚI — 22.12 Mn. MUREȘ — 46.12 Mn. NEAMȚ — 14.87 Mn. OLT — 8.07 Mn. PRAHOVA — 17.66 Mn. SĂLAJ — 11.21 Mn. SATU MARE — 19.88 Mn. SIBIU — 50.63 Mn. SUCEAVA — 54.32 Mn. TELEORMAN — 3.32 Mn. TIMIȘ — 19.17 Mn. TULCEA — 3.93 Mn. VÂLCEA — 20.55 Mn. VASLUI — 5.84 Mn. VRANCEA — 29.35 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 44,389,622 25,885,805 2,331,912,920 2,402,188,347 1,402 65.6%
BRAȘOV Centre 564,632 29,973,131 1,178,192 242,202,118 273,353,441 484 7.5%
BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD North-West 298,129 79,669,554 1,219,210 21,825,099 102,713,863 345 2.8%
BIHOR North-West 558,623 47,729,547 1,421,576 14,000,073 63,151,196 113 1.7%
CLUJ North-West 701,564 20,572,797 1,869,213 36,714,491 59,156,501 84 1.6%
SUCEAVA North-East 648,164 31,734,345 791,827 21,798,166 54,324,338 84 1.5%
CONSTANȚA South-East 656,512 6,365,332 1,703,712 45,214,592 53,283,636 81 1.5%
SIBIU Centre 396,679 45,015,124 1,909,009 3,703,593 50,627,726 128 1.4%
ARAD West 410,058 43,527,754 851,909 3,542,515 47,922,178 117 1.3%
MUREȘ Centre 519,813 32,855,752 3,326,779 9,941,237 46,123,768 89 1.3%
DOLJ South-West Oltenia 594,523 4,774,057 217,982 39,766,510 44,758,549 75 1.2%
ALBA Centre 324,901 22,990,119 2,470,851 17,234,375 42,695,345 131 1.2%
HARGHITA Centre 292,267 20,142,738 1,471,026 10,873,773 32,487,537 111 0.9%
VRANCEA South-East 330,157 9,385,858 397,388 19,568,995 29,352,241 89 0.8%
GALAȚI South-East 486,387 5,752,178 494,598 21,342,455 27,589,231 57 0.8%
ILFOV Bucharest-Ilfov 619,461 6,756,050 758,774 16,035,321 23,550,145 38 0.6%
MARAMUREȘ North-West 451,086 14,368,613 799,601 8,325,521 23,493,735 52 0.6%
HUNEDOARA West 349,011 16,874,702 507,902 5,589,150 22,971,754 66 0.6%
COVASNA Centre 199,596 14,103,075 753,679 8,070,502 22,927,256 115 0.6%
MEHEDINȚI South-West Oltenia 226,429 1,292,538 170,987 20,653,530 22,117,055 98 0.6%
VÂLCEA South-West Oltenia 337,988 2,670,071 259,147 17,621,518 20,550,736 61 0.6%
SATU MARE North-West 330,046 9,156,204 1,467,156 9,251,937 19,875,297 60 0.5%
TIMIȘ West 672,972 14,149,090 1,272,083 3,748,615 19,169,788 28 0.5%
PRAHOVA South-Muntenia 683,460 8,423,154 350,539 8,884,376 17,658,069 26 0.5%
ARGEȘ South-Muntenia 561,864 7,157,842 1,283,427 8,976,038 17,417,307 31 0.5%
NEAMȚ North-East 444,666 12,095,221 383,673 2,394,341 14,873,235 33 0.4%
CARAȘ-SEVERIN West 240,283 12,677,993 158,099 749,265 13,585,357 57 0.4%
SĂLAJ North-West 210,335 10,551,755 659,567 — 11,211,322 53 0.3%
BOTOȘANI North-East 386,529 4,118,182 242,275 6,467,921 10,828,378 28 0.3%
BACĂU North-East 590,169 5,966,424 540,795 2,833,361 9,340,580 16 0.3%
OLT South-West Oltenia 372,181 1,830,467 155,295 6,085,361 8,071,123 22 0.2%
IAȘI North-East 781,948 7,724,085 196,143 — 7,920,228 10 0.2%
IALOMIȚA South-Muntenia 247,409 2,357,774 320,014 5,006,955 7,684,743 31 0.2%
DÂMBOVIȚA South-Muntenia 475,812 6,252,256 401,561 — 6,653,817 14 0.2%
VASLUI North-East 363,247 1,932,667 116,776 3,787,032 5,836,475 16 0.2%
GIURGIU South-Muntenia 258,793 5,166,962 115,744 76,942 5,359,648 21 0.2%
BUZĂU South-East 393,136 3,955,646 223,508 — 4,179,154 11 0.1%
TULCEA South-East 186,131 2,317,819 181,545 1,426,824 3,926,188 21 0.1%
TELEORMAN South-Muntenia 308,440 2,301,870 9,265 1,005,000 3,316,135 11 0.1%
GORJ South-West Oltenia 306,938 1,119,928 434,314 1,506,570 3,060,812 10 0.1%
CĂLĂRAȘI South-Muntenia 277,347 2,831,338 96,389 — 2,927,727 11 0.1%
BRĂILA South-East 269,804 1,977,296 16,429 536,760 2,530,485 9 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
SUCEAVA 21,798,163 541,316,352 +519,518,189
BRAȘOV 242,202,115 288,893,363 +46,691,248
MUREȘ 9,941,236 183,332,919 +173,391,683
NEAMȚ 2,394,341 179,316,159 +176,921,818
CARAȘ-SEVERIN 749,265 125,021,654 +124,272,389
BACĂU 2,833,361 94,769,313 +91,935,952
SIBIU 3,703,592 88,352,026 +84,648,434
DOLJ 39,766,510 87,358,984 +47,592,474
TULCEA 1,426,824 87,342,695 +85,915,871
MARAMUREȘ 8,325,521 82,592,681 +74,267,160
PRAHOVA 8,884,376 74,277,142 +65,392,766
CLUJ 36,714,492 69,624,765 +32,910,273
OLT 6,085,361 67,083,267 +60,997,906
TIMIȘ 3,748,615 66,505,811 +62,757,196
BIHOR 14,000,073 66,044,605 +52,044,532
HARGHITA 10,873,773 57,834,318 +46,960,545
ARGEȘ 8,976,038 56,147,789 +47,171,751
CONSTANȚA 45,214,592 51,723,215 +6,508,623
MEHEDINȚI 20,653,530 47,848,338 +27,194,808
VRANCEA 19,568,995 46,672,438 +27,103,443
HUNEDOARA 5,589,150 44,884,258 +39,295,108
COVASNA 8,070,502 44,115,808 +36,045,306
GALAȚI 21,342,455 43,573,521 +22,231,066
ALBA 17,234,375 42,424,967 +25,190,592
GIURGIU 76,942 34,784,667 +34,707,725
TELEORMAN 1,005,000 33,428,072 +32,423,072
BUCUREȘTI 2,331,912,961 30,228,940 −2,301,684,021
ARAD 3,542,515 28,342,237 +24,799,722
BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD 21,825,099 25,668,440 +3,843,341
VÂLCEA 17,621,518 25,196,486 +7,574,968
DÂMBOVIȚA 0 24,583,469 +24,583,469
GORJ 1,506,570 23,197,026 +21,690,456
ILFOV 16,035,323 22,857,808 +6,822,485
CĂLĂRAȘI 0 22,672,343 +22,672,343
IAȘI 0 21,922,554 +21,922,554
BOTOȘANI 6,467,921 21,365,985 +14,898,064
VASLUI 3,787,032 17,238,845 +13,451,813
SATU MARE 9,251,937 14,248,454 +4,996,517
BUZĂU 0 13,813,191 +13,813,191
BRĂILA 536,760 10,848,268 +10,311,508
SĂLAJ 0 5,204,163 +5,204,163
IALOMIȚA 5,006,955 4,343,254 −663,701

Another 61.67 Mn. (2.1% 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

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

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