What would a basic income cost in the Comoros?
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Total cost per year
244 billion Comorian francs
about 558 million US dollars
882,847 people × 23,000 Comorian francs a month × 12 months
Compared with
- GDP (nominal) (2025)30.8%
The Comoros in numbers
The Comoros has a population of 882,847 (2025) and a GDP of 792 billion Comorian francs (about 1.81 billion US dollars) in 2025.
Paying everyone 23,000 Comorian francs a month would cost 244 billion Comorian francs a year (about 558 million US dollars), or 30.8% of GDP. The World Bank has no recent central government expense or tax figures for the Comoros, so only GDP is compared.
Children only (under 18: 380,859) would cost 105 billion Comorian francs a year (13.3% of GDP); adults only (18 and over: 501,988), 139 billion Comorian francs (17.5%).
Default amount: 23,000 Comorian francs a month is the World Bank's international poverty line of $3.00 a day (2021 PPP), converted into Comorian francs 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.