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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 793

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 — 67.04 Mn. ARAD — 66.37 Mn. ARGEȘ — 74.65 Mn. BACĂU — 69.79 Mn. BIHOR — 134.86 Mn. BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD — 63.62 Mn. BOTOȘANI — 45.64 Mn. BRĂILA — 24.67 Mn. BRAȘOV — 174.98 Mn. BUCUREȘTI — 1.02 Bn. BUZĂU — 58.30 Mn. CĂLĂRAȘI — 46.04 Mn. CARAȘ-SEVERIN — 66.01 Mn. CLUJ — 149.93 Mn. CONSTANȚA — 183.47 Mn. COVASNA — 29.47 Mn. DÂMBOVIȚA — 73.72 Mn. DOLJ — 109.23 Mn. GALAȚI — 115.66 Mn. GIURGIU — 39.22 Mn. GORJ — 38.77 Mn. HARGHITA — 48.98 Mn. HUNEDOARA — 98.38 Mn. IALOMIȚA — 33.85 Mn. IAȘI — 170.52 Mn. ILFOV — 67.67 Mn. MARAMUREȘ — 89.48 Mn. MEHEDINȚI — 34.44 Mn. MUREȘ — 133.15 Mn. NEAMȚ — 63.71 Mn. OLT — 73.73 Mn. PRAHOVA — 81.28 Mn. SĂLAJ — 30.36 Mn. SATU MARE — 68.04 Mn. SIBIU — 79.81 Mn. SUCEAVA — 110.08 Mn. TELEORMAN — 36.41 Mn. TIMIȘ — 130.43 Mn. TULCEA — 49.31 Mn. VÂLCEA — 61.88 Mn. VASLUI — 43.97 Mn. VRANCEA — 55.04 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 1,713,832 148,954,279 38,116,072 837,266,823 1,024,337,174 598 24.3%
CONSTANȚA South-East 656,512 83,050,436 15,627,890 84,789,194 183,467,520 279 4.4%
BRAȘOV Centre 564,632 59,104,384 3,972,015 111,903,072 174,979,471 310 4.2%
IAȘI North-East 781,948 82,227,108 6,998,612 81,299,236 170,524,956 218 4.0%
CLUJ North-West 701,564 107,950,742 8,178,669 33,804,762 149,934,173 214 3.6%
BIHOR North-West 558,623 110,229,079 15,545,334 9,083,088 134,857,501 241 3.2%
MUREȘ Centre 519,813 72,606,580 9,343,593 51,201,245 133,151,418 256 3.2%
TIMIȘ West 672,972 90,878,073 10,872,761 28,683,030 130,433,864 194 3.1%
GALAȚI South-East 486,387 47,607,963 4,737,718 63,315,382 115,661,063 238 2.7%
SUCEAVA North-East 648,164 101,667,786 1,481,008 6,934,042 110,082,836 170 2.6%
DOLJ South-West Oltenia 594,523 53,235,057 6,251,423 49,739,383 109,225,863 184 2.6%
HUNEDOARA West 349,011 68,668,725 5,469,393 24,238,170 98,376,288 282 2.3%
MARAMUREȘ North-West 451,086 72,448,781 1,591,427 15,443,191 89,483,399 198 2.1%
PRAHOVA South-Muntenia 683,460 69,597,118 2,966,143 8,714,144 81,277,405 119 1.9%
SIBIU Centre 396,679 41,139,490 13,311,024 25,355,173 79,805,687 201 1.9%
ARGEȘ South-Muntenia 561,864 59,286,582 3,358,794 12,005,671 74,651,047 133 1.8%
OLT South-West Oltenia 372,181 67,137,066 749,846 5,842,038 73,728,950 198 1.8%
DÂMBOVIȚA South-Muntenia 475,812 59,870,617 2,140,692 11,705,507 73,716,816 155 1.8%
BACĂU North-East 590,169 57,204,126 4,773,309 7,812,049 69,789,484 118 1.7%
SATU MARE North-West 330,046 51,126,703 3,388,708 13,524,990 68,040,401 206 1.6%
ILFOV Bucharest-Ilfov 619,461 59,686,720 3,483,540 4,503,988 67,674,248 109 1.6%
ALBA Centre 324,901 50,267,751 7,568,922 9,199,046 67,035,719 206 1.6%
ARAD West 410,058 48,568,076 3,597,630 14,203,669 66,369,375 162 1.6%
CARAȘ-SEVERIN West 240,283 39,682,360 900,795 25,429,438 66,012,593 275 1.6%
NEAMȚ North-East 444,666 47,458,541 3,435,382 12,815,091 63,709,014 143 1.5%
BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD North-West 298,129 49,713,718 5,324,154 8,583,547 63,621,419 213 1.5%
VÂLCEA South-West Oltenia 337,988 46,181,303 6,278,123 9,425,478 61,884,904 183 1.5%
BUZĂU South-East 393,136 48,303,274 4,501,414 5,493,997 58,298,685 148 1.4%
VRANCEA South-East 330,157 49,105,902 2,956,007 2,978,277 55,040,186 167 1.3%
TULCEA South-East 186,131 34,566,731 1,047,851 13,699,430 49,314,012 265 1.2%
HARGHITA Centre 292,267 30,799,563 6,022,470 12,157,415 48,979,448 168 1.2%
CĂLĂRAȘI South-Muntenia 277,347 42,345,662 2,028,262 1,667,234 46,041,158 166 1.1%
BOTOȘANI North-East 386,529 35,599,097 889,887 9,151,974 45,640,958 118 1.1%
VASLUI North-East 363,247 41,390,228 1,906,729 672,510 43,969,467 121 1.0%
GIURGIU South-Muntenia 258,793 28,411,706 2,423,027 8,388,906 39,223,639 152 0.9%
GORJ South-West Oltenia 306,938 32,889,201 3,229,074 2,649,171 38,767,446 126 0.9%
TELEORMAN South-Muntenia 308,440 33,849,213 1,574,934 985,902 36,410,049 118 0.9%
MEHEDINȚI South-West Oltenia 226,429 30,951,942 1,208,289 2,282,380 34,442,611 152 0.8%
IALOMIȚA South-Muntenia 247,409 28,270,002 3,667,907 1,915,634 33,853,543 137 0.8%
SĂLAJ North-West 210,335 24,233,734 1,608,859 4,518,902 30,361,495 144 0.7%
COVASNA Centre 199,596 24,542,247 1,635,296 3,295,030 29,472,573 148 0.7%
BRĂILA South-East 269,804 17,219,422 2,116,936 5,336,915 24,673,273 91 0.6%

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 837,266,822 392,893,855 −444,372,967
BRAȘOV 111,903,072 154,307,967 +42,404,895
SUCEAVA 6,934,042 126,223,745 +119,289,703
CONSTANȚA 84,789,194 103,418,504 +18,629,310
DOLJ 49,739,383 92,969,986 +43,230,603
CLUJ 33,804,762 75,325,832 +41,521,070
IAȘI 81,299,236 64,541,076 −16,758,160
NEAMȚ 12,815,091 53,208,646 +40,393,555
TELEORMAN 985,902 35,437,694 +34,451,792
GALAȚI 63,315,382 29,835,068 −33,480,314
ARAD 14,203,669 27,211,669 +13,008,000
MUREȘ 51,201,245 26,951,881 −24,249,364
BOTOȘANI 9,151,974 26,937,585 +17,785,611
PRAHOVA 8,714,144 26,303,498 +17,589,354
HUNEDOARA 24,238,170 24,721,000 +482,830
SIBIU 25,355,173 20,714,177 −4,640,996
CARAȘ-SEVERIN 25,429,438 20,238,951 −5,190,487
MARAMUREȘ 15,443,191 16,555,812 +1,112,621
TIMIȘ 28,683,030 16,317,458 −12,365,572
VÂLCEA 9,425,478 16,307,231 +6,881,753
TULCEA 13,699,430 14,421,920 +722,490
SATU MARE 13,524,990 14,386,640 +861,650
DÂMBOVIȚA 11,705,507 13,988,815 +2,283,308
HARGHITA 12,157,415 13,343,235 +1,185,820
ARGEȘ 12,005,671 12,680,594 +674,923
BACĂU 7,812,049 12,582,558 +4,770,509
BIHOR 9,083,089 9,605,361 +522,272
ALBA 9,199,046 9,551,636 +352,590
BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD 8,583,547 8,582,047 −1,500
GORJ 2,649,171 8,241,957 +5,592,786
MEHEDINȚI 2,282,380 7,209,824 +4,927,444
BUZĂU 5,493,997 6,902,867 +1,408,870
OLT 5,842,038 6,850,285 +1,008,247
VRANCEA 2,978,277 6,482,041 +3,503,764
VASLUI 672,510 6,069,647 +5,397,137
BRĂILA 5,336,915 5,408,918 +72,003
GIURGIU 8,388,906 5,010,708 −3,378,198
SĂLAJ 4,518,902 4,953,742 +434,840
ILFOV 4,503,988 4,749,668 +245,680
COVASNA 3,295,031 3,295,031 0
IALOMIȚA 1,915,634 3,129,854 +1,214,220
CĂLĂRAȘI 1,667,234 2,022,734 +355,500

Another 112.12 Mn. (6.8% 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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