What would a basic income cost in Brazil?
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Total cost per year
613 billion Brazilian reals
about 110 billion US dollars
213 million people × 240 Brazilian reals a month × 12 months
Compared with
- Government expense (central) (2023)14.8%
- Government revenue (central, excl. grants) (2024)18.2%
- Tax revenue (central government) (2024)31.2%
- GDP (nominal) (2025)4.8%
Brazil in numbers
Brazil has a population of 213 million (2025) and a GDP of 12.7 trillion Brazilian reals (about 2.28 trillion US dollars) in 2025.
Paying everyone 240 Brazilian reals a month would cost 613 billion Brazilian reals a year (about 110 billion US dollars), or 4.8% of GDP. That equals 14.8% of central government expense (2023), 18.2% of its revenue (2024), and 31.2% of its tax revenue (2024).
Children only (under 18: 50 million) would cost 144 billion Brazilian reals a year (1.1% of GDP); adults only (18 and over: 163 million), 469 billion Brazilian reals (3.7%).
Default amount: 240 Brazilian reals a month is the World Bank's international poverty line of $3.00 a day (2021 PPP), converted into Brazilian reals 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.