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Data stories 2026-10-31

Who wins government contracts, country by country

48 countries with 2,000 or more contract awards in the window. For each: how many suppliers win, how many win once, and what share goes to the top 1%.

Each story counts who won the public contracts of one country in the latest 24 months of our award data: by number of awards and, where 40% or more of the awards state an amount, by stated value. The method is the method of our study of 39 countries, who wins government contracts.

A country needs 2,000 or more awards in its window for a story. We leave out Slovenia: the names of its largest suppliers show a parse error in the source data. The sector pages show the same numbers for 159 country-sector pairs.

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Countries in order of the Gini coefficient of awards, highest first. Snapshot 31 October 2026.
Country Window Awards Gini Won one award Top 1% by awards Top 1% by value
United States Jan 2025 – Oct 2026 (short) 56,866 0.81 66% 65% 46%
Uzbekistan Sep 2024 – Aug 2026 212,150 0.79 49% 48% 73%
Croatia Nov 2024 – Oct 2026 34,790 0.75 33% 34% 33%
Ukraine Jan 2025 – Oct 2026 (short) 481,642 0.74 41% 37% 73%
Dominican Republic Jan 2026 – Oct 2026 (short) 69,761 0.71 39% 26% 42%
Bulgaria Nov 2024 – Oct 2026 41,665 0.71 43% 28% –
Czech Republic Oct 2024 – Sep 2026 76,235 0.70 37% 22% 36%
Lithuania Nov 2024 – Oct 2026 20,959 0.69 45% 22% 45%
Poland Nov 2024 – Oct 2026 95,683 0.67 57% 36% 58%
Mexico Nov 2024 – Oct 2026 226,752 0.67 47% 34% 62%
Spain Nov 2024 – Oct 2026 54,650 0.67 55% 24% 49%
Portugal Nov 2024 – Oct 2026 206,468 0.66 63% 32% 61%
Brazil Nov 2024 – Oct 2026 270,442 0.66 67% 35% 51%
Australia Jun 2025 – Oct 2026 (short) 44,618 0.64 65% 31% 60%
Estonia Nov 2024 – Oct 2026 15,728 0.64 51% 20% 31%
Latvia Nov 2024 – Oct 2026 16,136 0.63 47% 21% 32%
Slovakia Nov 2024 – Oct 2026 13,204 0.63 53% 21% 33%
United Kingdom Nov 2024 – Oct 2026 68,861 0.61 63% 25% 63%
Moldova Feb 2025 – Oct 2026 (short) 24,794 0.60 53% 21% 54%
Hungary Oct 2024 – Sep 2026 18,181 0.59 46% 13% –
Romania Nov 2024 – Oct 2026 9,313 0.59 44% 17% –
Denmark Nov 2024 – Oct 2026 10,894 0.58 61% 22% 33%
Uruguay Mar 2025 – Oct 2026 (short) 7,583 0.57 55% 14% –
Netherlands Nov 2024 – Oct 2026 20,025 0.57 59% 21% 48%
Cyprus Nov 2024 – Oct 2026 2,302 0.57 59% 14% 23%
Greece Nov 2024 – Oct 2026 14,689 0.56 50% 12% 49%
Finland Nov 2024 – Oct 2026 19,743 0.55 62% 18% 35%
Israel Nov 2024 – Oct 2026 12,829 0.55 48% 16% 79%
Malta Nov 2024 – Oct 2026 2,615 0.53 60% 15% 34%
Paraguay Nov 2024 – Oct 2026 5,138 0.53 52% 11% 42%
Sweden Oct 2024 – Sep 2026 29,993 0.52 57% 16% –
Canada Jan 2025 – Oct 2026 (short) 7,544 0.52 66% 17% 50%
Peru Jan 2025 – Oct 2026 (short) 8,451 0.52 75% 31% 63%
Germany Oct 2024 – Sep 2026 152,518 0.51 65% 17% 45%
Tanzania Sep 2024 – Mar 2026 (short) 20,873 0.49 49% 9% 40%
New Zealand Nov 2024 – Oct 2026 5,282 0.49 70% 19% –
Kenya Jul 2024 – Jun 2026 31,073 0.48 54% 14% 51%
Austria Nov 2024 – Oct 2026 15,480 0.45 63% 12% 33%
France Nov 2024 – Oct 2026 23,764 0.43 73% 17% –
Rwanda May 2024 – Apr 2026 2,499 0.41 59% 8% 50%
Ireland Nov 2024 – Oct 2026 11,437 0.40 64% 11% 56%
South Africa Aug 2024 – Jul 2026 12,073 0.40 69% 14% 21%
Luxembourg Oct 2024 – Sep 2026 2,701 0.39 68% 12% 53%
Belgium Nov 2024 – Oct 2026 20,270 0.39 75% 13% 51%
Singapore Nov 2024 – Oct 2026 6,015 0.36 70% 9% 46%
Taiwan Jan 2025 – Oct 2026 (short) 19,493 0.36 68% 10% 57%
Ecuador Jan 2025 – Oct 2026 (short) 5,736 0.32 75% 11% 35%
Colombia Jan 2025 – Oct 2026 (short) 805,774 0.26 68% 7% 56%

Gini: 0 means that each supplier wins the same number of awards, 1 means that one supplier wins all. A short window has fewer than 24 months of data, which lowers the shares. "–": fewer than 40% of the awards state an amount, so the story shows counts only.

Snapshot 31 October 2026. The numbers change when we add new awards.

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