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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 032

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 — 21.53 Mn. ARAD — 166.54 Mn. ARGEȘ — 29.08 Mn. BACĂU — 29.22 Mn. BIHOR — 25.16 Mn. BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD — 15.03 Mn. BOTOȘANI — 31.68 Mn. BRĂILA — 12.62 Mn. BRAȘOV — 34.10 Mn. BUCUREȘTI — 268.60 Mn. BUZĂU — 22.15 Mn. CĂLĂRAȘI — 3.17 Mn. CARAȘ-SEVERIN — 9.69 Mn. CLUJ — 38.07 Mn. CONSTANȚA — 37.63 Mn. COVASNA — 14.67 Mn. DÂMBOVIȚA — 19.87 Mn. DOLJ — 31.28 Mn. GALAȚI — 27.38 Mn. GIURGIU — 6.14 Mn. GORJ — 11.57 Mn. HARGHITA — 7.20 Mn. HUNEDOARA — 24.85 Mn. IALOMIȚA — 9.20 Mn. IAȘI — 56.87 Mn. ILFOV — 4.12 Mn. MARAMUREȘ — 29.27 Mn. MEHEDINȚI — 9.31 Mn. MUREȘ — 29.77 Mn. NEAMȚ — 32.59 Mn. OLT — 26.91 Mn. PRAHOVA — 38.31 Mn. SĂLAJ — 6.84 Mn. SATU MARE — 15.98 Mn. SIBIU — 12.24 Mn. SUCEAVA — 39.81 Mn. TELEORMAN — 5.83 Mn. TIMIȘ — 39.87 Mn. TULCEA — 13.26 Mn. VÂLCEA — 15.98 Mn. VASLUI — 24.65 Mn. VRANCEA — 10.29 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 47,485,932 6,728,599 214,389,199 268,603,730 157 20.5%
ARAD West 410,058 1,514,303 225,445 164,801,952 166,541,700 406 12.7%
IAȘI North-East 781,948 9,677,135 1,104,820 46,083,577 56,865,532 73 4.4%
TIMIȘ West 672,972 12,557,925 1,478,449 25,829,175 39,865,549 59 3.1%
SUCEAVA North-East 648,164 9,735,894 343,856 29,726,775 39,806,525 61 3.0%
PRAHOVA South-Muntenia 683,460 11,924,073 113,889 26,267,795 38,305,757 56 2.9%
CLUJ North-West 701,564 24,924,029 1,443,398 11,702,013 38,069,440 54 2.9%
CONSTANȚA South-East 656,512 8,754,997 472,635 28,402,585 37,630,217 57 2.9%
BRAȘOV Centre 564,632 11,587,652 103,905 22,413,386 34,104,943 60 2.6%
NEAMȚ North-East 444,666 6,425,783 203,475 25,959,984 32,589,242 73 2.5%
BOTOȘANI North-East 386,529 5,525,902 74,894 26,077,624 31,678,420 82 2.4%
DOLJ South-West Oltenia 594,523 10,091,787 197,568 20,993,892 31,283,247 53 2.4%
MUREȘ Centre 519,813 11,361,918 199,297 18,212,117 29,773,332 57 2.3%
MARAMUREȘ North-West 451,086 4,766,111 1,087,153 23,414,956 29,268,220 65 2.2%
BACĂU North-East 590,169 11,887,608 473,204 16,857,942 29,218,754 50 2.2%
ARGEȘ South-Muntenia 561,864 5,052,434 111,396 23,915,113 29,078,943 52 2.2%
GALAȚI South-East 486,387 12,353,523 170,062 14,854,775 27,378,360 56 2.1%
OLT South-West Oltenia 372,181 2,511,884 4,202 24,393,169 26,909,255 72 2.1%
BIHOR North-West 558,623 10,374,797 51,136 14,734,902 25,160,835 45 1.9%
HUNEDOARA West 349,011 8,401,894 47,638 16,401,933 24,851,465 71 1.9%
VASLUI North-East 363,247 6,698,142 519,133 17,429,790 24,647,065 68 1.9%
BUZĂU South-East 393,136 5,575,988 117,355 16,455,768 22,149,111 56 1.7%
ALBA Centre 324,901 6,626,532 122,353 14,780,573 21,529,458 66 1.7%
DÂMBOVIȚA South-Muntenia 475,812 8,171,179 131,386 11,571,083 19,873,648 42 1.5%
VÂLCEA South-West Oltenia 337,988 3,238,953 252,406 12,492,364 15,983,723 47 1.2%
SATU MARE North-West 330,046 1,299,287 646,130 14,030,736 15,976,153 48 1.2%
BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD North-West 298,129 7,876,181 67,319 7,084,195 15,027,695 50 1.2%
COVASNA Centre 199,596 7,830,972 232,252 6,604,269 14,667,493 73 1.1%
TULCEA South-East 186,131 3,741,729 25,016 9,497,186 13,263,931 71 1.0%
BRĂILA South-East 269,804 5,579,233 108,154 6,933,389 12,620,776 47 1.0%
SIBIU Centre 396,679 6,299,111 1,500,404 4,443,541 12,243,056 31 0.9%
GORJ South-West Oltenia 306,938 5,386,480 43,285 6,142,889 11,572,654 38 0.9%
VRANCEA South-East 330,157 4,543,254 19,931 5,727,424 10,290,609 31 0.8%
CARAȘ-SEVERIN West 240,283 4,159,975 110,922 5,417,467 9,688,364 40 0.7%
MEHEDINȚI South-West Oltenia 226,429 533,454 20,299 8,755,828 9,309,581 41 0.7%
IALOMIȚA South-Muntenia 247,409 2,483,351 58,420 6,657,880 9,199,651 37 0.7%
HARGHITA Centre 292,267 4,972,237 1,458,103 769,870 7,200,210 25 0.6%
SĂLAJ North-West 210,335 2,777,796 499 4,057,673 6,835,968 33 0.5%
GIURGIU South-Muntenia 258,793 435,256 4,940 5,700,215 6,140,411 24 0.5%
TELEORMAN South-Muntenia 308,440 2,670,581 2,910 3,159,342 5,832,833 19 0.5%
ILFOV Bucharest-Ilfov 619,461 1,697,533 914,797 1,511,788 4,124,118 7 0.3%
CĂLĂRAȘI South-Muntenia 277,347 2,876,615 93,415 196,143 3,166,173 11 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
ARAD 164,801,952 165,008,415 +206,463
BUCUREȘTI 214,389,200 122,553,317 −91,835,883
TIMIȘ 25,829,177 51,452,278 +25,623,101
IAȘI 46,083,575 44,360,206 −1,723,369
BACĂU 16,857,943 39,213,009 +22,355,066
SUCEAVA 29,726,779 32,033,449 +2,306,670
GALAȚI 14,854,777 28,570,578 +13,715,801
CONSTANȚA 28,402,580 28,396,272 −6,308
NEAMȚ 25,959,983 26,283,517 +323,534
PRAHOVA 26,267,797 26,259,614 −8,183
BOTOȘANI 26,077,619 26,077,619 0
OLT 24,393,170 24,393,170 0
ARGEȘ 23,915,111 24,173,983 +258,872
MARAMUREȘ 23,414,956 23,253,620 −161,336
BRAȘOV 22,413,385 22,307,571 −105,814
DOLJ 20,993,883 20,993,883 0
MUREȘ 18,212,117 18,258,854 +46,737
VASLUI 17,429,790 18,005,641 +575,851
BUZĂU 16,455,769 16,542,901 +87,132
HUNEDOARA 16,401,929 16,337,708 −64,221
ALBA 14,780,576 14,780,576 0
BIHOR 14,734,899 14,734,899 0
SATU MARE 14,030,736 14,030,736 0
SIBIU 4,443,541 13,450,940 +9,007,399
CLUJ 11,702,005 11,910,063 +208,058
VÂLCEA 12,492,373 11,833,282 −659,091
DÂMBOVIȚA 11,571,086 10,809,259 −761,827
TULCEA 9,497,184 9,495,702 −1,482
MEHEDINȚI 8,755,828 8,755,828 0
BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD 7,084,195 7,084,195 0
BRĂILA 6,933,389 6,933,389 0
IALOMIȚA 6,657,880 6,657,880 0
COVASNA 6,604,268 6,604,268 0
VRANCEA 5,727,425 6,386,516 +659,091
ILFOV 1,511,787 6,071,786 +4,559,999
GIURGIU 5,700,215 5,842,016 +141,801
CARAȘ-SEVERIN 5,417,467 5,476,669 +59,202
GORJ 6,142,889 4,924,272 −1,218,617
SĂLAJ 4,057,674 4,057,674 0
TELEORMAN 3,159,342 3,067,305 −92,037
HARGHITA 769,869 769,869 0
CĂLĂRAȘI 196,143 196,143 0

Another 16.50 Mn. (1.7% 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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