What would a basic income cost in Djibouti?
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Total cost per year
115 billion Djiboutian francs
about 648 million US dollars
1.18 million people × 8,100 Djiboutian francs a month × 12 months
Compared with
- GDP (nominal) (2025)14.0%
Djibouti in numbers
Djibouti has a population of 1.18 million (2025) and a GDP of 822 billion Djiboutian francs (about 4.62 billion US dollars) in 2025.
Paying everyone 8,100 Djiboutian francs a month would cost 115 billion Djiboutian francs a year (about 648 million US dollars), or 14.0% of GDP. The World Bank has no recent central government expense or tax figures for Djibouti, so only GDP is compared.
Children only (under 18: 409,279) would cost 39.8 billion Djiboutian francs a year (4.8% of GDP); adults only (18 and over: 774,797), 75.3 billion Djiboutian francs (9.2%).
Default amount: 8,100 Djiboutian francs a month is the World Bank's international poverty line of $3.00 a day (2021 PPP), converted into Djiboutian francs 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.