What would a basic income cost in Egypt?
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Total cost per year
1.42 trillion Egyptian pounds
about 28.6 billion US dollars
118 million people × E£1,000 a month × 12 months
Compared with
- GDP (nominal) (2025)7.8%
Egypt in numbers
Egypt has a population of 118 million (2025) and a GDP of 18.1 trillion Egyptian pounds (about 365 billion US dollars) in 2025.
Paying everyone E£1,000 a month would cost 1.42 trillion Egyptian pounds a year (about 28.6 billion US dollars), or 7.8% of GDP. The World Bank has no recent central government expense or tax figures for Egypt, so only GDP is compared.
Children only (under 18: 44.2 million) would cost 530 billion Egyptian pounds a year (2.9% of GDP); adults only (18 and over: 74.2 million), 890 billion Egyptian pounds (4.9%).
Default amount: E£1,000 a month is a round figure chosen by the editors for this calculator. For comparison, the World Bank's poverty line of $3.00 a day is about E£700 a month here; paying that to everyone would cost 5.5% of GDP.
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
- GDP
- World Bank, World Development Indicators: GDP in current local currency units (NY.GDP.MKTP.CN), 2025. Updated 8 Oct 2026. India and Egypt report on a fiscal-year basis
- World Bank: GDP in current local currency (NY.GDP.MKTP.CN) and in current US dollars (NY.GDP.MKTP.CD), 2025
- 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.