What would a basic income cost in Morocco?
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Total cost per year
166 billion Moroccan dirhams
about 17.8 billion US dollars
38.4 million people × 360 Moroccan dirhams a month × 12 months
Compared with
- Government expense (central) (2023)36.6%
- Government revenue (central, excl. grants) (2024)37.9%
- Tax revenue (central government) (2024)42.9%
- GDP (nominal) (2025)9.7%
Morocco in numbers
Morocco has a population of 38.4 million (2025) and a GDP of 1.71 trillion Moroccan dirhams (about 182 billion US dollars) in 2025.
Paying everyone 360 Moroccan dirhams a month would cost 166 billion Moroccan dirhams a year (about 17.8 billion US dollars), or 9.7% of GDP. That equals 36.6% of central government expense (2023), 37.9% of its revenue (2024), and 42.9% of its tax revenue (2024).
Children only (under 18: 11.7 million) would cost 50.4 billion Moroccan dirhams a year (3% of GDP); adults only (18 and over: 26.8 million), 116 billion Moroccan dirhams (6.8%).
Default amount: 360 Moroccan dirhams a month is the World Bank's international poverty line of $3.00 a day (2021 PPP), converted into Moroccan dirhams 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), 2023, 2024
- 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.