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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 391

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 — 89.25 Mn. ARAD — 84.57 Mn. ARGEȘ — 121.96 Mn. BACĂU — 109.39 Mn. BIHOR — 159.93 Mn. BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD — 66.27 Mn. BOTOȘANI — 73.78 Mn. BRĂILA — 53.28 Mn. BRAȘOV — 135.98 Mn. BUCUREȘTI — 772.14 Mn. BUZĂU — 79.53 Mn. CĂLĂRAȘI — 58.06 Mn. CARAȘ-SEVERIN — 49.25 Mn. CLUJ — 204.68 Mn. CONSTANȚA — 142.94 Mn. COVASNA — 48.84 Mn. DÂMBOVIȚA — 93.17 Mn. DOLJ — 109.07 Mn. GALAȚI — 100.19 Mn. GIURGIU — 44.10 Mn. GORJ — 67.32 Mn. HARGHITA — 70.41 Mn. HUNEDOARA — 85.03 Mn. IALOMIȚA — 54.32 Mn. IAȘI — 200.33 Mn. ILFOV — 117.45 Mn. MARAMUREȘ — 114.52 Mn. MEHEDINȚI — 48.46 Mn. MUREȘ — 146.01 Mn. NEAMȚ — 96.36 Mn. OLT — 76.84 Mn. PRAHOVA — 123.02 Mn. SĂLAJ — 59.23 Mn. SATU MARE — 82.46 Mn. SIBIU — 124.43 Mn. SUCEAVA — 189.14 Mn. TELEORMAN — 49.90 Mn. TIMIȘ — 202.25 Mn. TULCEA — 40.95 Mn. VÂLCEA — 73.35 Mn. VASLUI — 62.50 Mn. VRANCEA — 66.96 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 1,713,832 335,527,507 33,964,543 402,646,994 772,139,044 451 16.3%
CLUJ North-West 701,564 107,970,726 8,465,865 88,240,205 204,676,796 292 4.3%
TIMIȘ West 672,972 79,871,508 3,878,673 118,501,454 202,251,635 301 4.3%
IAȘI North-East 781,948 85,949,873 5,706,059 108,671,284 200,327,216 256 4.2%
SUCEAVA North-East 648,164 80,556,193 1,904,067 106,682,748 189,143,008 292 4.0%
BIHOR North-West 558,623 62,857,546 5,882,646 91,184,973 159,925,165 286 3.4%
MUREȘ Centre 519,813 61,056,801 2,684,787 82,272,839 146,014,427 281 3.1%
CONSTANȚA South-East 656,512 73,569,747 6,143,440 63,224,836 142,938,023 218 3.0%
BRAȘOV Centre 564,632 69,776,636 3,064,287 63,135,475 135,976,398 241 2.9%
SIBIU Centre 396,679 47,645,112 6,214,104 70,568,081 124,427,297 314 2.6%
PRAHOVA South-Muntenia 683,460 47,448,155 2,282,953 73,288,422 123,019,530 180 2.6%
ARGEȘ South-Muntenia 561,864 39,506,682 2,474,560 79,981,827 121,963,069 217 2.6%
ILFOV Bucharest-Ilfov 619,461 62,736,295 3,235,027 51,476,119 117,447,441 190 2.5%
MARAMUREȘ North-West 451,086 49,512,488 2,571,256 62,438,549 114,522,293 254 2.4%
BACĂU North-East 590,169 44,009,319 2,776,257 62,602,584 109,388,160 185 2.3%
DOLJ South-West Oltenia 594,523 54,467,624 2,956,947 51,641,451 109,066,022 183 2.3%
GALAȚI South-East 486,387 34,196,906 3,540,997 62,449,540 100,187,443 206 2.1%
NEAMȚ North-East 444,666 39,685,495 2,069,009 54,605,290 96,359,794 217 2.0%
DÂMBOVIȚA South-Muntenia 475,812 31,894,115 1,232,954 60,042,207 93,169,276 196 2.0%
ALBA Centre 324,901 45,778,405 2,334,178 41,139,380 89,251,963 275 1.9%
HUNEDOARA West 349,011 42,342,392 2,020,922 40,668,509 85,031,823 244 1.8%
ARAD West 410,058 39,367,354 1,311,302 43,895,241 84,573,897 206 1.8%
SATU MARE North-West 330,046 34,242,911 4,678,738 43,539,047 82,460,696 250 1.7%
BUZĂU South-East 393,136 50,892,225 1,928,177 26,713,160 79,533,562 202 1.7%
OLT South-West Oltenia 372,181 42,968,226 2,087,767 31,784,105 76,840,098 206 1.6%
BOTOȘANI North-East 386,529 38,107,727 1,641,992 34,029,528 73,779,247 191 1.6%
VÂLCEA South-West Oltenia 337,988 30,880,423 2,561,480 39,906,845 73,348,748 217 1.5%
HARGHITA Centre 292,267 28,051,376 2,145,612 40,215,898 70,412,886 241 1.5%
GORJ South-West Oltenia 306,938 37,506,766 1,180,036 28,632,228 67,319,030 219 1.4%
VRANCEA South-East 330,157 34,800,014 1,364,534 30,797,171 66,961,719 203 1.4%
BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD North-West 298,129 38,825,730 2,906,582 24,540,073 66,272,385 222 1.4%
VASLUI North-East 363,247 30,125,373 1,710,524 30,665,122 62,501,019 172 1.3%
SĂLAJ North-West 210,335 27,499,772 1,610,916 30,116,657 59,227,345 282 1.3%
CĂLĂRAȘI South-Muntenia 277,347 26,748,279 1,549,804 29,761,954 58,060,037 209 1.2%
IALOMIȚA South-Muntenia 247,409 21,984,981 475,063 31,862,884 54,322,928 220 1.1%
BRĂILA South-East 269,804 23,960,171 1,828,226 27,494,328 53,282,725 197 1.1%
TELEORMAN South-Muntenia 308,440 26,706,309 463,858 22,727,071 49,897,238 162 1.1%
CARAȘ-SEVERIN West 240,283 24,633,295 1,008,088 23,608,400 49,249,783 205 1.0%
COVASNA Centre 199,596 22,322,079 659,698 25,860,614 48,842,391 245 1.0%
MEHEDINȚI South-West Oltenia 226,429 25,396,326 679,620 22,388,312 48,464,258 214 1.0%
GIURGIU South-Muntenia 258,793 22,915,012 918,055 20,265,102 44,098,169 170 0.9%
TULCEA South-East 186,131 26,363,613 282,279 14,305,765 40,951,657 220 0.9%

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 402,646,995 346,993,687 −55,653,308
TIMIȘ 118,501,448 116,492,810 −2,008,638
IAȘI 108,671,285 104,897,170 −3,774,115
SUCEAVA 106,682,750 104,484,929 −2,197,821
ARGEȘ 79,981,827 92,397,204 +12,415,377
BIHOR 91,184,972 92,062,713 +877,741
CLUJ 88,240,203 84,993,541 −3,246,662
MUREȘ 82,272,839 83,371,324 +1,098,485
PRAHOVA 73,288,421 79,952,457 +6,664,036
SIBIU 70,568,080 72,217,372 +1,649,292
BACĂU 62,602,582 68,881,421 +6,278,839
CONSTANȚA 63,224,838 65,383,451 +2,158,613
GALAȚI 62,449,539 64,252,846 +1,803,307
MARAMUREȘ 62,438,549 63,069,197 +630,648
DÂMBOVIȚA 60,042,206 58,688,672 −1,353,534
BRAȘOV 63,135,476 58,095,656 −5,039,820
NEAMȚ 54,605,287 54,141,222 −464,065
DOLJ 51,641,452 52,600,957 +959,505
ARAD 43,895,241 45,638,685 +1,743,444
HUNEDOARA 40,668,508 45,097,805 +4,429,297
SATU MARE 43,539,047 41,999,515 −1,539,532
ALBA 41,139,379 40,161,377 −978,002
BOTOȘANI 34,029,529 39,460,045 +5,430,516
HARGHITA 40,215,898 38,887,780 −1,328,118
VÂLCEA 39,906,846 38,272,946 −1,633,900
ILFOV 51,476,118 34,706,188 −16,769,930
VASLUI 30,665,121 34,687,131 +4,022,010
IALOMIȚA 31,862,884 34,152,408 +2,289,524
SĂLAJ 30,116,657 30,344,966 +228,309
GORJ 28,632,227 29,644,893 +1,012,666
OLT 31,784,106 29,276,473 −2,507,633
VRANCEA 30,797,172 28,705,772 −2,091,400
CĂLĂRAȘI 29,761,955 27,028,240 −2,733,715
COVASNA 25,860,613 25,491,262 −369,351
BRĂILA 27,494,327 25,484,595 −2,009,732
BUZĂU 26,713,160 25,088,890 −1,624,270
CARAȘ-SEVERIN 23,608,400 25,068,149 +1,459,749
BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD 24,540,073 23,968,148 −571,925
TELEORMAN 22,727,069 23,735,292 +1,008,223
MEHEDINȚI 22,388,312 23,150,830 +762,518
GIURGIU 20,265,102 19,770,157 −494,945
TULCEA 14,305,765 15,008,876 +703,111

Another 50.77 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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