What would a basic income cost in Iraq?
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Total cost per year
28.2 trillion Iraqi dinars
about 21.7 billion US dollars
47 million people × 50,000 Iraqi dinars a month × 12 months
Compared with
- GDP (nominal) (2025)8.5%
Iraq in numbers
Iraq has a population of 47 million (2025) and a GDP of 331 trillion Iraqi dinars (about 254 billion US dollars) in 2025.
Paying everyone 50,000 Iraqi dinars a month would cost 28.2 trillion Iraqi dinars a year (about 21.7 billion US dollars), or 8.5% of GDP. The World Bank has no recent central government expense or tax figures for Iraq, so only GDP is compared.
Children only (under 18: 20 million) would cost 12 trillion Iraqi dinars a year (3.6% of GDP); adults only (18 and over: 27 million), 16.2 trillion Iraqi dinars (4.9%).
Default amount: 50,000 Iraqi dinars a month is the World Bank's international poverty line of $3.00 a day (2021 PPP), converted into Iraqi dinars 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
- 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.