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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 909

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 — 43.46 Mn. ARAD — 136.73 Mn. ARGEȘ — 29.44 Mn. BACĂU — 32.46 Mn. BIHOR — 137.27 Mn. BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD — 13.66 Mn. BOTOȘANI — 18.50 Mn. BRĂILA — 31.85 Mn. BRAȘOV — 179.17 Mn. BUCUREȘTI — 1.78 Bn. BUZĂU — 37.53 Mn. CĂLĂRAȘI — 31.84 Mn. CARAȘ-SEVERIN — 29.81 Mn. CLUJ — 243.24 Mn. CONSTANȚA — 170.36 Mn. COVASNA — 15.45 Mn. DÂMBOVIȚA — 18.47 Mn. DOLJ — 77.09 Mn. GALAȚI — 45.56 Mn. GIURGIU — 19.57 Mn. GORJ — 19.60 Mn. HARGHITA — 28.79 Mn. HUNEDOARA — 42.52 Mn. IALOMIȚA — 21.93 Mn. IAȘI — 172.65 Mn. ILFOV — 132.51 Mn. MARAMUREȘ — 24.19 Mn. MEHEDINȚI — 14.28 Mn. MUREȘ — 122.92 Mn. NEAMȚ — 33.67 Mn. OLT — 23.72 Mn. PRAHOVA — 53.68 Mn. SĂLAJ — 25.00 Mn. SATU MARE — 33.55 Mn. SIBIU — 82.20 Mn. SUCEAVA — 43.87 Mn. TELEORMAN — 18.00 Mn. TIMIȘ — 229.11 Mn. TULCEA — 38.75 Mn. VÂLCEA — 14.13 Mn. VASLUI — 13.98 Mn. VRANCEA — 36.16 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 1,713,832 310,826,958 42,337,847 1,422,192,873 1,775,357,678 1,036 41.2%
CLUJ North-West 701,564 89,753,259 4,439,811 149,044,005 243,237,075 347 5.6%
TIMIȘ West 672,972 74,588,674 5,412,343 149,111,645 229,112,662 340 5.3%
BRAȘOV Centre 564,632 38,654,129 4,984,089 135,531,623 179,169,841 317 4.2%
IAȘI North-East 781,948 42,790,834 3,096,430 126,757,759 172,645,023 221 4.0%
CONSTANȚA South-East 656,512 59,338,385 5,662,800 105,362,931 170,364,116 260 4.0%
BIHOR North-West 558,623 48,248,430 4,760,714 84,258,997 137,268,141 246 3.2%
ARAD West 410,058 47,165,547 1,984,529 87,579,838 136,729,914 333 3.2%
ILFOV Bucharest-Ilfov 619,461 51,942,382 2,622,797 77,947,377 132,512,556 214 3.1%
MUREȘ Centre 519,813 29,747,067 6,053,283 87,121,146 122,921,496 236 2.9%
SIBIU Centre 396,679 33,797,458 4,792,946 43,605,540 82,195,944 207 1.9%
DOLJ South-West Oltenia 594,523 22,521,872 2,742,708 51,823,324 77,087,904 130 1.8%
PRAHOVA South-Muntenia 683,460 32,618,615 2,861,587 18,195,227 53,675,429 79 1.2%
GALAȚI South-East 486,387 27,356,302 3,880,180 14,320,801 45,557,283 94 1.1%
SUCEAVA North-East 648,164 37,223,678 2,755,788 3,894,161 43,873,627 68 1.0%
ALBA Centre 324,901 24,397,139 2,501,200 16,561,479 43,459,818 134 1.0%
HUNEDOARA West 349,011 30,746,927 900,023 10,876,232 42,523,182 122 1.0%
TULCEA South-East 186,131 20,852,838 965,086 16,928,359 38,746,283 208 0.9%
BUZĂU South-East 393,136 20,938,171 1,278,283 15,318,160 37,534,614 95 0.9%
VRANCEA South-East 330,157 25,173,007 591,430 10,398,669 36,163,106 110 0.8%
NEAMȚ North-East 444,666 26,460,229 1,246,351 5,965,471 33,672,051 76 0.8%
SATU MARE North-West 330,046 21,649,284 2,482,413 9,419,695 33,551,392 102 0.8%
BACĂU North-East 590,169 25,617,949 2,730,876 4,113,087 32,461,912 55 0.8%
BRĂILA South-East 269,804 18,738,457 715,579 12,391,587 31,845,623 118 0.7%
CĂLĂRAȘI South-Muntenia 277,347 21,439,935 523,189 9,872,228 31,835,352 115 0.7%
CARAȘ-SEVERIN West 240,283 15,074,576 876,403 13,859,423 29,810,402 124 0.7%
ARGEȘ South-Muntenia 561,864 21,770,072 2,242,605 5,431,953 29,444,630 52 0.7%
HARGHITA Centre 292,267 22,236,031 2,086,294 4,465,040 28,787,365 99 0.7%
SĂLAJ North-West 210,335 12,215,012 217,563 12,568,591 25,001,166 119 0.6%
MARAMUREȘ North-West 451,086 17,341,826 2,139,500 4,705,798 24,187,124 54 0.6%
OLT South-West Oltenia 372,181 22,778,084 622,063 317,353 23,717,500 64 0.6%
IALOMIȚA South-Muntenia 247,409 18,223,016 2,156,597 1,550,121 21,929,734 89 0.5%
GORJ South-West Oltenia 306,938 18,409,744 421,078 770,742 19,601,564 64 0.5%
GIURGIU South-Muntenia 258,793 18,808,878 765,370 — 19,574,248 76 0.5%
BOTOȘANI North-East 386,529 17,128,286 1,059,260 307,580 18,495,126 48 0.4%
DÂMBOVIȚA South-Muntenia 475,812 17,373,413 1,094,269 — 18,467,682 39 0.4%
TELEORMAN South-Muntenia 308,440 17,534,919 465,753 — 18,000,672 58 0.4%
COVASNA Centre 199,596 13,342,915 830,040 1,273,584 15,446,539 77 0.4%
MEHEDINȚI South-West Oltenia 226,429 13,376,365 908,347 — 14,284,712 63 0.3%
VÂLCEA South-West Oltenia 337,988 12,666,427 1,195,728 263,276 14,125,431 42 0.3%
VASLUI North-East 363,247 12,484,470 1,248,373 242,190 13,975,033 38 0.3%
BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD North-West 298,129 10,048,254 1,576,797 2,039,079 13,664,130 46 0.3%

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 1,422,192,864 811,260,883 −610,931,981
CONSTANȚA 105,362,931 191,434,854 +86,071,923
TIMIȘ 149,111,645 180,704,165 +31,592,520
CLUJ 149,044,002 178,353,261 +29,309,259
BRAȘOV 135,531,623 175,263,429 +39,731,806
IAȘI 126,757,760 149,235,485 +22,477,725
ARAD 87,579,838 107,917,508 +20,337,670
BIHOR 84,258,997 92,156,720 +7,897,723
MUREȘ 87,121,147 81,954,770 −5,166,377
DOLJ 51,823,324 59,238,605 +7,415,281
SIBIU 43,605,538 55,653,959 +12,048,421
ILFOV 77,947,377 50,142,550 −27,804,827
SUCEAVA 3,894,161 49,680,789 +45,786,628
GALAȚI 14,320,801 35,311,258 +20,990,457
BUZĂU 15,318,160 27,868,807 +12,550,647
BACĂU 4,113,087 25,157,187 +21,044,100
SATU MARE 9,419,695 23,218,761 +13,799,066
PRAHOVA 18,195,229 22,461,635 +4,266,406
ALBA 16,561,479 20,131,956 +3,570,477
HUNEDOARA 10,876,232 19,086,842 +8,210,610
TULCEA 16,928,359 19,083,408 +2,155,049
CARAȘ-SEVERIN 13,859,423 18,419,557 +4,560,134
NEAMȚ 5,965,471 17,220,534 +11,255,063
SĂLAJ 12,568,591 16,334,964 +3,766,373
ARGEȘ 5,431,953 15,697,360 +10,265,407
MARAMUREȘ 4,705,798 14,137,312 +9,431,514
VRANCEA 10,398,669 13,470,323 +3,071,654
BRĂILA 12,391,587 12,732,548 +340,961
CĂLĂRAȘI 9,872,228 12,067,172 +2,194,944
GORJ 770,742 10,590,629 +9,819,887
BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD 2,039,079 9,528,201 +7,489,122
OLT 317,353 8,202,836 +7,885,483
VASLUI 242,190 5,689,149 +5,446,959
VÂLCEA 263,276 5,180,014 +4,916,738
HARGHITA 4,465,040 4,627,831 +162,791
MEHEDINȚI 0 4,246,845 +4,246,845
COVASNA 1,273,584 2,670,953 +1,397,369
IALOMIȚA 1,550,121 2,187,069 +636,948
TELEORMAN 0 1,585,165 +1,585,165
BOTOȘANI 307,580 1,526,444 +1,218,864
GIURGIU 0 1,179,469 +1,179,469
DÂMBOVIȚA 0 92,509 +92,509

Another 163.68 Mn. (6.0% 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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