What would a basic income cost in Montenegro?
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Total cost per year
299 million euros
about 338 million US dollars
623,129 people × 40 euros a month × 12 months
Compared with
- GDP (nominal) (2025)3.7%
Montenegro in numbers
Montenegro has a population of 623,129 (2025) and a GDP of 8.17 billion euros (about 9.23 billion US dollars) in 2025.
Paying everyone 40 euros a month would cost 299 million euros a year (about 338 million US dollars), or 3.7% of GDP. The World Bank has no recent central government expense or tax figures for Montenegro, so only GDP is compared.
Children only (under 18: 137,921) would cost 66.2 million euros a year (0.81% of GDP); adults only (18 and over: 485,208), 233 million euros (2.9%).
Default amount: 40 euros a month is the World Bank's international poverty line of $3.00 a day (2021 PPP), converted into euros 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.