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6,250,377 residents · Chair: Alain Rousset

Nouvelle-Aquitaine

€3.2 billion spent in 2025.

€519 per resident · Mainland regions: €563

What Nouvelle-Aquitaine spends, by policy

  • High schools, training and apprenticeships32%€1.05B
  • Trains, coaches and transport31%€1.01B
  • Administration and shared services12%€402.8M
  • Economy and business support8%€267M
  • Loans: repayments and interest8%€256.2M
  • Culture, sport and youth3%€109.2M
The 5 other items (5%)
  • Environment2%€56.6M
  • Town planning and housing1%€39.5M
  • Health and social care< 1%€3.9M
  • Passed on to other bodies2%€53.9M
  • Not assigned to a policy< 1%€2.3M

Source: 2025 accounts of Nouvelle-Aquitaine (DGFiP), by public policy.

Where the money goes

The €3.24B spent in 2025, by who receives it.

  • Associations and other bodies34%€1.10B

    Grants and contributions.

  • Companies20%€636.9M

    Purchases, services and works. See the names ↓

  • Transport bodies and other bodies14%€468.3M

    Compulsory or voluntary contributions, mostly to transport bodies (regional trains).

  • The region’s staff13%€425.7M

    Pay and contributions.

  • Banks8%€256.2M

    Loan interest and repayments.

  • Public bodies4%€131.9M

    Compulsory contributions, including the running costs of high schools.

  • Residents4%€128M

    Pay for vocational trainees, study grants and other aid.

  • Other3%€98.9M

    Councillors’ allowances, taxes paid, other costs.

Source: 2025 accounts of Nouvelle-Aquitaine (DGFiP).

Contracts state a maximum amount for their whole term, often several years. That amount differs from what was paid. Purchases, services and works paid to companies by the region in 2025: €636.9M (its accounts).

287 contracts signed in 2025 · €136.3M before tax

Why this total differs from the €636.9M of purchases, services and works paid to companies

These are the amounts of the contracts signed in the year, over their whole length, not what was paid. The money paid in a year also goes to older contracts and to purchases too small to be published (under €40,000 excl. VAT). For a framework agreement, the amount is a ceiling.

Investment and works

€256M of capital spending in 2025 (building, renovation, equipment), €41 per resident. Mainland regions: €47.

Click a building site to see the contract

Largest works contracted since 2023, among published contracts. Amounts planned at signature, often spread over several years.

On top of that, €602M paid to other bodies for their own equipment (towns, intercommunalities, associations…).

Source: 2025 accounts of Nouvelle-Aquitaine (DGFiP), by public policy.

Revenue and financing

Revenue: €3.01B · borrowing: €280M · spending: €3.24B.

Breakdown of resources

  • Taxes (VAT share, fuel tax, vehicle registration)66%€2.18B
  • Capital receipts: grants for works, VAT refunds, sales of property…11%€355M
  • State and other contributions8%€271.8M
  • Users and rents1%€20.1M
  • Other receipts5%€179.4M
  • Borrowing9%€280M

Source: OFGL, 2025 accounts of the main budget.

Debt and taxes

€560 of debt per resident

Mainland regions: €560

6.9 years of savings to repay it

2025 accounts. Debt and taxes: OFGL, consolidated (main and side budgets). Per resident: amount divided by the population (Insee). “Mainland regions”: median of the 13 mainland regions.

Who is part of Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Understanding these figures

Who does what

The region pays for high schools, regional trains (TER) and intercity coaches, school transport outside towns, aid to businesses, vocational training and apprenticeships.

Official table of responsibilities (July 2025)

Why the levels are not added up

The same euro can appear twice: once when a region or a département pays a grant, again when the town spends it. Each page shows its own body’s spending.

Where these figures come from

Spending: the accounts of the main budget published by the DGFiP, by public policy. Revenue, debt and taxes: OFGL. Contracts: published contract data (DECP), amounts planned at signing.

Elected officials and staff of Nouvelle-Aquitaine: to report a figure to correct or add context, write to Qipu.

Page edited by Qipu, independent of Nouvelle-Aquitaine · Sources and method

Accounts 2025 (DGFiP, OFGL). The method · See the source