What would a basic income cost in Argentina?
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Total cost per year
60.5 trillion Argentine pesos
about 48.8 billion US dollars
45.9 million people × 110,000 Argentine pesos a month × 12 months
Compared with
- Government expense (central) (2023)34.0%
- Government revenue (central, excl. grants) (2024)42.3%
- Tax revenue (central government) (2024)68.5%
- GDP (nominal) (2025)7.1%
Argentina in numbers
Argentina has a population of 45.9 million (2025) and a GDP of 848 trillion Argentine pesos (about 683 billion US dollars) in 2025.
Paying everyone 110,000 Argentine pesos a month would cost 60.5 trillion Argentine pesos a year (about 48.8 billion US dollars), or 7.1% of GDP. That equals 34.0% of central government expense (2023), 42.3% of its revenue (2024), and 68.5% of its tax revenue (2024).
Children only (under 18: 11.8 million) would cost 15.6 trillion Argentine pesos a year (1.8% of GDP); adults only (18 and over: 34 million), 44.9 trillion Argentine pesos (5.3%).
Default amount: 110,000 Argentine pesos a month is the World Bank's international poverty line of $3.00 a day, converted into Argentine pesos at the exchange rate implied by the World Bank's GDP in local currency and in US dollars (2025), because there is no recent PPP conversion factor, 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
- 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.