What would a basic income cost in Belarus?
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Total cost per year
8.4 billion Belarusian rubles
about 2.74 billion US dollars
9.09 million people × 77 Belarusian rubles a month × 12 months
Compared with
- Government expense (central) (2023)10.3%
- Government revenue (central, excl. grants) (2024)10.4%
- Tax revenue (central government) (2024)22.5%
- GDP (nominal) (2025)2.9%
Belarus in numbers
Belarus has a population of 9.09 million (2025) and a GDP of 287 billion Belarusian rubles (about 93.4 billion US dollars) in 2025.
Paying everyone 77 Belarusian rubles a month would cost 8.4 billion Belarusian rubles a year (about 2.74 billion US dollars), or 2.9% of GDP. That equals 10.3% of central government expense (2023), 10.4% of its revenue (2024), and 22.5% of its tax revenue (2024).
Children only (under 18: 1.75 million) would cost 1.62 billion Belarusian rubles a year (0.56% of GDP); adults only (18 and over: 7.34 million), 6.78 billion Belarusian rubles (2.4%).
Default amount: 77 Belarusian rubles a month is the World Bank's international poverty line of $3.00 a day (2021 PPP), converted into Belarusian rubles 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.