What would a basic income cost in Haiti?
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Total cost per year
1.71 trillion Haitian gourdes
about 13.1 billion US dollars
11.9 million people × 12,000 Haitian gourdes a month × 12 months
Compared with
- GDP (nominal) (2025)40.9%
Haiti in numbers
Haiti has a population of 11.9 million (2025) and a GDP of 4.19 trillion Haitian gourdes (about 32.1 billion US dollars) in 2025.
Paying everyone 12,000 Haitian gourdes a month would cost 1.71 trillion Haitian gourdes a year (about 13.1 billion US dollars), or 40.9% of GDP. The World Bank has no recent central government expense or tax figures for Haiti, so only GDP is compared.
Children only (under 18: 4.38 million) would cost 630 billion Haitian gourdes a year (15.0% of GDP); adults only (18 and over: 7.53 million), 1.08 trillion Haitian gourdes (25.9%).
Default amount: 12,000 Haitian gourdes a month is the World Bank's international poverty line of $3.00 a day (2021 PPP), converted into Haitian gourdes 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.