What would a basic income cost in Bosnia and Herzegovina?
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Total cost per year
2.64 billion Bosnia-Herzegovina convertible marks
about 1.52 billion US dollars
3.14 million people × 70 Bosnia-Herzegovina convertible marks a month × 12 months
Compared with
- Government expense (central) (2023)13.2%
- Government revenue (central, excl. grants) (2024)12.4%
- Tax revenue (central government) (2024)23.1%
- GDP (nominal) (2025)4.7%
Bosnia and Herzegovina in numbers
Bosnia and Herzegovina has a population of 3.14 million (2025) and a GDP of 56.6 billion Bosnia-Herzegovina convertible marks (about 32.6 billion US dollars) in 2025.
Paying everyone 70 Bosnia-Herzegovina convertible marks a month would cost 2.64 billion Bosnia-Herzegovina convertible marks a year (about 1.52 billion US dollars), or 4.7% of GDP. That equals 13.2% of central government expense (2023), 12.4% of its revenue (2024), and 23.1% of its tax revenue (2024).
Children only (under 18: 499,662) would cost 420 million Bosnia-Herzegovina convertible marks a year (0.74% of GDP); adults only (18 and over: 2.64 million), 2.22 billion Bosnia-Herzegovina convertible marks (3.9%).
Default amount: 70 Bosnia-Herzegovina convertible marks a month is the World Bank's international poverty line of $3.00 a day (2021 PPP), converted into Bosnia-Herzegovina convertible marks 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.