What would a basic income cost in Fiji?
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Total cost per year
907 million Fijian dollars
about 395 million US dollars
933,154 people × 81 Fijian dollars a month × 12 months
Compared with
- Government expense (central) (2023)22.9%
- Government revenue (central, excl. grants) (2024)23.9%
- Tax revenue (central government) (2024)26.6%
- GDP (nominal) (2025)6.4%
Fiji in numbers
Fiji has a population of 933,154 (2025) and a GDP of 14.2 billion Fijian dollars (about 6.2 billion US dollars) in 2025.
Paying everyone 81 Fijian dollars a month would cost 907 million Fijian dollars a year (about 395 million US dollars), or 6.4% of GDP. That equals 22.9% of central government expense (2023), 23.9% of its revenue (2024), and 26.6% of its tax revenue (2024).
Children only (under 18: 300,364) would cost 292 million Fijian dollars a year (2% of GDP); adults only (18 and over: 632,790), 615 million Fijian dollars (4.3%).
Default amount: 81 Fijian dollars a month is the World Bank's international poverty line of $3.00 a day (2021 PPP), converted into Fijian 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
- Government expense and tax revenue
- World Bank: central government expense, revenue excluding grants and tax revenue, % of GDP (GC.XPN.TOTL.GD.ZS, GC.REV.XGRT.GD.ZS, GC.TAX.TOTL.GD.ZS), 2023, 2024
- 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.