What would a basic income cost in Algeria?
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Total cost per year
2.16 trillion Algerian dinars
about 16.4 billion US dollars
47.4 million people × 3,800 Algerian dinars a month × 12 months
Compared with
- GDP (nominal) (2025)5.7%
Algeria in numbers
Algeria has a population of 47.4 million (2025) and a GDP of 37.8 trillion Algerian dinars (about 287 billion US dollars) in 2025.
Paying everyone 3,800 Algerian dinars a month would cost 2.16 trillion Algerian dinars a year (about 16.4 billion US dollars), or 5.7% of GDP. The World Bank has no recent central government expense or tax figures for Algeria, so only GDP is compared.
Children only (under 18: 16.6 million) would cost 758 billion Algerian dinars a year (2% of GDP); adults only (18 and over: 30.8 million), 1.4 trillion Algerian dinars (3.7%).
Default amount: 3,800 Algerian dinars a month is the World Bank's international poverty line of $3.00 a day (2021 PPP), converted into Algerian dinars 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.
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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.