What would a basic income cost in Aruba?
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Total cost per year
209 million Aruban florin
about 117 million US dollars
108,785 people × 160 Aruban florin a month × 12 months
Compared with
- GDP (nominal) (2024)2.8%
Aruba in numbers
Aruba has a population of 108,785 (2025) and a GDP of 7.46 billion Aruban florin (about 4.17 billion US dollars) in 2024.
Paying everyone 160 Aruban florin a month would cost 209 million Aruban florin a year (about 117 million US dollars), or 2.8% of GDP. The World Bank has no recent central government expense or tax figures for Aruba, so only GDP is compared.
Children only (under 18: 22,005) would cost 42.2 million Aruban florin a year (0.57% of GDP); adults only (18 and over: 86,780), 167 million Aruban florin (2.2%).
Default amount: 160 Aruban florin a month is the World Bank's international poverty line of $3.00 a day, converted into Aruban florin at the exchange rate implied by the World Bank's GDP in local currency and in US dollars (2024), 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.
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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
- 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.