What would a basic income cost in Cuba?
Pick a country, who gets it and how much a month. Everything is calculated on this device; nothing is sent anywhere.
Total cost per year
11.9 billion Cuban pesos
about 11.9 billion US dollars
10.9 million people × 91 Cuban pesos a month × 12 months
Compared with
- GDP (nominal) (2020)11.1%
Cuba in numbers
Cuba has a population of 10.9 million (2025) and a GDP of 107 billion Cuban pesos (about 107 billion US dollars) in 2020.
Paying everyone 91 Cuban pesos a month would cost 11.9 billion Cuban pesos a year (about 11.9 billion US dollars), or 11.1% of GDP. The World Bank has no recent central government expense or tax figures for Cuba, so only GDP is compared.
Children only (under 18: 2 million) would cost 2.19 billion Cuban pesos a year (2% of GDP); adults only (18 and over: 8.93 million), 9.76 billion Cuban pesos (9.1%).
Default amount: 91 Cuban pesos a month is the World Bank's international poverty line of $3.00 a day, converted into Cuban pesos at the exchange rate implied by the World Bank's GDP in local currency and in US dollars (2020), because there is no recent PPP conversion factor, 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
- 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.