What would a basic income cost in Bolivia?
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Total cost per year
37.7 billion Bolivian bolivianos
about 5.46 billion US dollars
12.6 million people × 250 Bolivian bolivianos a month × 12 months
Compared with
- GDP (nominal) (2025)8.4%
Bolivia in numbers
Bolivia has a population of 12.6 million (2025) and a GDP of 448 billion Bolivian bolivianos (about 64.8 billion US dollars) in 2025.
Paying everyone 250 Bolivian bolivianos a month would cost 37.7 billion Bolivian bolivianos a year (about 5.46 billion US dollars), or 8.4% of GDP. The World Bank has no recent central government expense or tax figures for Bolivia, so only GDP is compared.
Children only (under 18: 4.42 million) would cost 13.3 billion Bolivian bolivianos a year (3% of GDP); adults only (18 and over: 8.16 million), 24.5 billion Bolivian bolivianos (5.5%).
Default amount: 250 Bolivian bolivianos a month is the World Bank's international poverty line of $3.00 a day (2021 PPP), converted into Bolivian bolivianos 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
- 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.