What would a basic income cost in Honduras?
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Total cost per year
158 billion Honduran lempiras
about 6.11 billion US dollars
11 million people × 1,200 Honduran lempiras a month × 12 months
Compared with
- Government expense (central) (2020)63.2%
- Government revenue (central, excl. grants) (2020)69.4%
- Tax revenue (central government) (2020)102%
- GDP (nominal) (2025)15.4%
Honduras in numbers
Honduras has a population of 11 million (2025) and a GDP of 1.03 trillion Honduran lempiras (about 39.6 billion US dollars) in 2025.
Paying everyone 1,200 Honduran lempiras a month would cost 158 billion Honduran lempiras a year (about 6.11 billion US dollars), or 15.4% of GDP. That equals 63.2% of central government expense (2020), 69.4% of its revenue (2020), and 102% of its tax revenue (2020).
Children only (under 18: 3.97 million) would cost 57.2 billion Honduran lempiras a year (5.6% of GDP); adults only (18 and over: 7.04 million), 101 billion Honduran lempiras (9.9%).
Default amount: 1,200 Honduran lempiras a month is the World Bank's international poverty line of $3.00 a day (2021 PPP), converted into Honduran lempiras 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), 2020
- 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.