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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 · Utilities, waste and environment

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 — 276.49 Mn. ARAD — 706.94 Mn. ARGEȘ — 537.99 Mn. BACĂU — 261.98 Mn. BIHOR — 621.00 Mn. BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD — 87.28 Mn. BOTOȘANI — 50.68 Mn. BRĂILA — 923.07 Mn. BRAȘOV — 1.91 Bn. BUCUREȘTI — 9.17 Bn. BUZĂU — 653.86 Mn. CĂLĂRAȘI — 228.10 Mn. CARAȘ-SEVERIN — 100.85 Mn. CLUJ — 1.82 Bn. CONSTANȚA — 982.54 Mn. COVASNA — 28.68 Mn. DÂMBOVIȚA — 419.61 Mn. DOLJ — 1.60 Bn. GALAȚI — 309.71 Mn. GIURGIU — 145.05 Mn. GORJ — 218.83 Mn. HARGHITA — 910.33 Mn. HUNEDOARA — 969.31 Mn. IALOMIȚA — 84.26 Mn. IAȘI — 359.22 Mn. ILFOV — 832.49 Mn. MARAMUREȘ — 316.34 Mn. MEHEDINȚI — 326.08 Mn. MUREȘ — 1.34 Bn. NEAMȚ — 819.47 Mn. OLT — 318.64 Mn. PRAHOVA — 3.45 Bn. SĂLAJ — 83.27 Mn. SATU MARE — 164.36 Mn. SIBIU — 364.83 Mn. SUCEAVA — 442.62 Mn. TELEORMAN — 431.24 Mn. TIMIȘ — 707.11 Mn. TULCEA — 191.28 Mn. VÂLCEA — 417.35 Mn. VASLUI — 59.77 Mn. VRANCEA — 293.38 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 1,713,832 539,805,336 114,595,467 8,511,946,287 9,166,347,090 5,348 27.0%
PRAHOVA South-Muntenia 683,460 73,657,653 8,697,677 3,369,091,902 3,451,447,232 5,050 10.2%
BRAȘOV Centre 564,632 91,434,199 14,408,487 1,805,361,355 1,911,204,041 3,385 5.6%
CLUJ North-West 701,564 161,073,672 13,277,488 1,645,711,244 1,820,062,404 2,594 5.4%
DOLJ South-West Oltenia 594,523 39,887,529 8,290,785 1,551,888,904 1,600,067,218 2,691 4.7%
MUREȘ Centre 519,813 68,103,963 13,099,632 1,257,912,297 1,339,115,892 2,576 4.0%
CONSTANȚA South-East 656,512 125,213,224 22,820,646 834,506,374 982,540,244 1,497 2.9%
HUNEDOARA West 349,011 47,653,820 2,687,922 918,965,545 969,307,287 2,777 2.9%
BRĂILA South-East 269,804 39,216,950 4,110,951 879,738,537 923,066,438 3,421 2.7%
HARGHITA Centre 292,267 69,095,466 8,805,982 832,424,518 910,325,966 3,115 2.7%
ILFOV Bucharest-Ilfov 619,461 105,481,793 8,148,654 718,864,047 832,494,494 1,344 2.5%
NEAMȚ North-East 444,666 55,985,173 5,074,796 758,407,340 819,467,309 1,843 2.4%
TIMIȘ West 672,972 124,397,608 20,635,524 562,073,116 707,106,248 1,051 2.1%
ARAD West 410,058 73,884,028 8,321,234 624,733,117 706,938,379 1,724 2.1%
BUZĂU South-East 393,136 62,020,152 5,408,192 586,430,359 653,858,703 1,663 1.9%
BIHOR North-West 558,623 95,475,766 9,244,594 516,282,288 621,002,648 1,112 1.8%
ARGEȘ South-Muntenia 561,864 57,216,472 12,484,685 468,289,746 537,990,903 958 1.6%
SUCEAVA North-East 648,164 135,175,855 8,953,037 298,493,463 442,622,355 683 1.3%
TELEORMAN South-Muntenia 308,440 29,944,012 1,335,399 399,958,955 431,238,366 1,398 1.3%
DÂMBOVIȚA South-Muntenia 475,812 44,859,122 3,698,838 371,051,367 419,609,327 882 1.2%
VÂLCEA South-West Oltenia 337,988 37,061,936 6,315,050 373,973,505 417,350,491 1,235 1.2%
SIBIU Centre 396,679 56,618,108 16,460,902 291,752,620 364,831,630 920 1.1%
IAȘI North-East 781,948 83,302,822 15,098,593 260,822,777 359,224,192 459 1.1%
MEHEDINȚI South-West Oltenia 226,429 30,991,781 1,707,325 293,378,470 326,077,576 1,440 1.0%
OLT South-West Oltenia 372,181 46,967,859 2,385,277 269,289,663 318,642,799 856 0.9%
MARAMUREȘ North-West 451,086 54,277,819 10,027,460 252,033,155 316,338,434 701 0.9%
GALAȚI South-East 486,387 84,676,168 21,409,789 203,622,564 309,708,521 637 0.9%
VRANCEA South-East 330,157 76,664,716 17,221,759 199,489,466 293,375,941 889 0.9%
ALBA Centre 324,901 53,626,714 10,009,711 212,852,097 276,488,522 851 0.8%
BACĂU North-East 590,169 64,589,116 12,896,804 184,491,206 261,977,126 444 0.8%
CĂLĂRAȘI South-Muntenia 277,347 50,700,310 2,398,098 175,003,066 228,101,474 822 0.7%
GORJ South-West Oltenia 306,938 43,025,118 5,948,411 169,854,311 218,827,840 713 0.6%
TULCEA South-East 186,131 36,870,590 3,390,302 151,019,122 191,280,014 1,028 0.6%
SATU MARE North-West 330,046 45,878,665 8,039,271 110,442,976 164,360,912 498 0.5%
GIURGIU South-Muntenia 258,793 47,576,106 1,622,584 95,855,721 145,054,411 561 0.4%
CARAȘ-SEVERIN West 240,283 33,223,738 3,605,958 64,022,952 100,852,648 420 0.3%
BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD North-West 298,129 22,723,944 11,895,530 52,662,586 87,282,060 293 0.3%
IALOMIȚA South-Muntenia 247,409 27,251,851 5,820,880 51,192,082 84,264,813 341 0.3%
SĂLAJ North-West 210,335 34,302,843 2,693,909 46,275,441 83,272,193 396 0.3%
VASLUI North-East 363,247 26,038,484 9,036,592 24,694,653 59,769,729 165 0.2%
BOTOȘANI North-East 386,529 36,741,951 4,069,066 9,873,249 50,684,266 131 0.2%
COVASNA Centre 199,596 21,436,727 3,339,787 3,899,585 28,676,099 144 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 8,511,946,286 4,681,234,060 −3,830,712,226
PRAHOVA 3,369,091,904 3,564,229,220 +195,137,316
BRAȘOV 1,805,361,355 1,949,653,537 +144,292,182
CLUJ 1,645,711,242 1,622,417,902 −23,293,340
DOLJ 1,551,888,904 1,589,143,658 +37,254,754
MUREȘ 1,257,912,298 1,457,204,502 +199,292,204
CONSTANȚA 834,506,374 1,182,522,327 +348,015,953
HUNEDOARA 918,965,545 941,436,316 +22,470,771
HARGHITA 832,424,518 896,383,945 +63,959,427
BRĂILA 879,738,537 893,463,313 +13,724,776
TIMIȘ 562,073,116 854,904,698 +292,831,582
NEAMȚ 758,407,340 817,856,218 +59,448,878
ARAD 624,733,117 687,295,473 +62,562,356
VÂLCEA 373,973,505 647,696,856 +273,723,351
ILFOV 718,864,047 635,620,885 −83,243,162
BUZĂU 586,430,359 596,637,783 +10,207,424
BIHOR 516,282,288 565,387,151 +49,104,863
ARGEȘ 468,289,746 498,194,348 +29,904,602
TELEORMAN 399,958,955 437,136,747 +37,177,792
IAȘI 260,822,779 431,982,407 +171,159,628
VRANCEA 199,489,466 414,873,167 +215,383,701
SUCEAVA 298,493,463 414,409,807 +115,916,344
SIBIU 291,752,618 407,681,273 +115,928,655
MEHEDINȚI 293,378,470 365,128,839 +71,750,369
DÂMBOVIȚA 371,051,367 363,759,513 −7,291,854
OLT 269,289,663 363,013,040 +93,723,377
MARAMUREȘ 252,033,155 340,992,551 +88,959,396
ALBA 212,852,097 270,134,763 +57,282,666
BACĂU 184,491,206 235,386,436 +50,895,230
GALAȚI 203,622,563 232,955,144 +29,332,581
GORJ 169,854,311 222,912,788 +53,058,477
SATU MARE 110,442,976 181,274,036 +70,831,060
CĂLĂRAȘI 175,003,066 161,634,736 −13,368,330
TULCEA 151,019,122 148,660,434 −2,358,688
CARAȘ-SEVERIN 64,022,952 138,350,776 +74,327,824
BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD 52,662,586 100,799,828 +48,137,242
GIURGIU 95,855,721 91,887,957 −3,967,764
SĂLAJ 46,275,441 74,324,459 +28,049,018
VASLUI 24,694,654 46,378,347 +21,683,693
BOTOȘANI 9,873,249 42,010,941 +32,137,692
IALOMIȚA 51,192,082 33,221,360 −17,970,722
COVASNA 3,899,585 30,351,386 +26,451,801

Another 778.09 Mn. (2.6% 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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