What would a basic income cost in the Gambia?
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Total cost per year
61 billion Gambian dalasis
about 850 million US dollars
2.82 million people × 1,800 Gambian dalasis a month × 12 months
Compared with
- GDP (nominal) (2025)32.8%
The Gambia in numbers
The Gambia has a population of 2.82 million (2025) and a GDP of 186 billion Gambian dalasis (about 2.59 billion US dollars) in 2025.
Paying everyone 1,800 Gambian dalasis a month would cost 61 billion Gambian dalasis a year (about 850 million US dollars), or 32.8% of GDP. The World Bank has no recent central government expense or tax figures for the Gambia, so only GDP is compared.
Children only (under 18: 1.31 million) would cost 28.4 billion Gambian dalasis a year (15.3% of GDP); adults only (18 and over: 1.51 million), 32.6 billion Gambian dalasis (17.5%).
Default amount: 1,800 Gambian dalasis a month is the World Bank's international poverty line of $3.00 a day (2021 PPP), converted into Gambian dalasis with the World Bank's PPP conversion factor for household consumption (2024) 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), 2024
- 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.