What would a basic income cost in Iran?
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Total cost per year
15,500 trillion Iranian rials
about 20.9 billion US dollars
92.4 million people × 14 million Iranian rials a month × 12 months
Compared with
- GDP (nominal) (2025)5.8%
Iran in numbers
Iran has a population of 92.4 million (2025) and a GDP of 269,000 trillion Iranian rials (about 363 billion US dollars) in 2025.
Paying everyone 14 million Iranian rials a month would cost 15,500 trillion Iranian rials a year (about 20.9 billion US dollars), or 5.8% of GDP. The World Bank has no recent central government expense or tax figures for Iran, so only GDP is compared.
Children only (under 18: 24.3 million) would cost 4,090 trillion Iranian rials a year (1.5% of GDP); adults only (18 and over: 68.1 million), 11,400 trillion Iranian rials (4.2%).
Default amount: 14 million Iranian rials a month is the World Bank's international poverty line of $3.00 a day (2021 PPP), converted into Iranian rials 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.