What would a basic income cost in Belize?
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Total cost per year
502 million Belize dollars
about 251 million US dollars
422,924 people × 99 Belize dollars a month × 12 months
Compared with
- GDP (nominal) (2025)7.6%
Belize in numbers
Belize has a population of 422,924 (2025) and a GDP of 6.65 billion Belize dollars (about 3.33 billion US dollars) in 2025.
Paying everyone 99 Belize dollars a month would cost 502 million Belize dollars a year (about 251 million US dollars), or 7.6% of GDP. The World Bank has no recent central government expense or tax figures for Belize, so only GDP is compared.
Children only (under 18: 133,564) would cost 159 million Belize dollars a year (2.4% of GDP); adults only (18 and over: 289,360), 344 million Belize dollars (5.2%).
Default amount: 99 Belize dollars a month is the World Bank's international poverty line of $3.00 a day (2021 PPP), converted into Belize dollars 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.