What would a basic income cost in Armenia?
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Total cost per year
519 billion Armenian drams
about 1.34 billion US dollars
3.09 million people × 14,000 Armenian drams a month × 12 months
Compared with
- Government expense (central) (2023)21.9%
- Government revenue (central, excl. grants) (2024)19.0%
- Tax revenue (central government) (2024)20.5%
- GDP (nominal) (2025)4.6%
Armenia in numbers
Armenia has a population of 3.09 million (2025) and a GDP of 11.3 trillion Armenian drams (about 29.2 billion US dollars) in 2025.
Paying everyone 14,000 Armenian drams a month would cost 519 billion Armenian drams a year (about 1.34 billion US dollars), or 4.6% of GDP. That equals 21.9% of central government expense (2023), 19.0% of its revenue (2024), and 20.5% of its tax revenue (2024).
Children only (under 18: 678,272) would cost 114 billion Armenian drams a year (1% of GDP); adults only (18 and over: 2.41 million), 405 billion Armenian drams (3.6%).
Default amount: 14,000 Armenian drams a month is the World Bank's international poverty line of $3.00 a day (2021 PPP), converted into Armenian drams with the World Bank's PPP conversion factor for household consumption (2025) and rounded to two significant figures. It is a reference point, not a policy proposal; change it above.
How to read this
This is the gross cost: the total paid out. The real net cost depends on which taxes fund it, which benefits or tax breaks it replaces and whether the payment is taxed. The population, budget and GDP figures are not all from the same year (see the sources).
Sources for the figures
- Population
- World Bank: population, total (SP.POP.TOTL), and population by single year of age 0 to 17 (SP.POP.AG00.FE.IN … SP.POP.AG17.MA.IN), 2025
- SP.POP.AG00.FE.IN … SP.POP.AG17.MA.IN
- Government expense and tax revenue
- World Bank: central government expense, revenue excluding grants and tax revenue, % of GDP (GC.XPN.TOTL.GD.ZS, GC.REV.XGRT.GD.ZS, GC.TAX.TOTL.GD.ZS), 2023, 2024
- Default amount
- World Bank: international poverty line of $3.00 a day (2021 PPP), June 2025 update
- World Bank: PPP conversion factor, household final consumption (PA.NUS.PRVT.PP), 2025
- Retrieved from the World Bank API on November 9, 2026 (CC BY 4.0). Government figures are central government, as a share of GDP in their own year, applied to the latest GDP.