What would a basic income cost in Guyana?
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Total cost per year
89.3 billion Guyanaese dollars
about 428 million US dollars
835,986 people × 8,900 Guyanaese dollars a month × 12 months
Compared with
- GDP (nominal) (2025)1.6%
Guyana in numbers
Guyana has a population of 835,986 (2025) and a GDP of 5.65 trillion Guyanaese dollars (about 27.1 billion US dollars) in 2025.
Paying everyone 8,900 Guyanaese dollars a month would cost 89.3 billion Guyanaese dollars a year (about 428 million US dollars), or 1.6% of GDP. The World Bank has no recent central government expense or tax figures for Guyana, so only GDP is compared.
Children only (under 18: 287,056) would cost 30.7 billion Guyanaese dollars a year (0.54% of GDP); adults only (18 and over: 548,930), 58.6 billion Guyanaese dollars (1%).
Default amount: 8,900 Guyanaese dollars a month is the World Bank's international poverty line of $3.00 a day (2021 PPP), converted into Guyanaese 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.
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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.