What would a basic income cost in Bangladesh?
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Total cost per year
6.75 trillion Bangladeshi takas
about 55.8 billion US dollars
176 million people × 3,200 Bangladeshi takas a month × 12 months
Compared with
- Government expense (central) (2021)147%
- Government revenue (central, excl. grants) (2021)128%
- Tax revenue (central government) (2021)160%
- GDP (nominal) (2025)12.2%
Bangladesh in numbers
Bangladesh has a population of 176 million (2025) and a GDP of 55.2 trillion Bangladeshi takas (about 456 billion US dollars) in 2025.
Paying everyone 3,200 Bangladeshi takas a month would cost 6.75 trillion Bangladeshi takas a year (about 55.8 billion US dollars), or 12.2% of GDP. That equals 147% of central government expense (2021), 128% of its revenue (2021), and 160% of its tax revenue (2021).
Children only (under 18: 58.7 million) would cost 2.25 trillion Bangladeshi takas a year (4.1% of GDP); adults only (18 and over: 117 million), 4.49 trillion Bangladeshi takas (8.1%).
Default amount: 3,200 Bangladeshi takas a month is the World Bank's international poverty line of $3.00 a day (2021 PPP), converted into Bangladeshi takas 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), 2021
- 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.