What would a basic income cost in Myanmar?
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Total cost per year
125 trillion Myanmar kyats
about 59.6 billion US dollars
54.9 million people × 190,000 Myanmar kyats a month × 12 months
Compared with
- GDP (nominal) (2025)72.9%
Myanmar in numbers
Myanmar has a population of 54.9 million (2025) and a GDP of 171 trillion Myanmar kyats (about 81.7 billion US dollars) in 2025.
Paying everyone 190,000 Myanmar kyats a month would cost 125 trillion Myanmar kyats a year (about 59.6 billion US dollars), or 72.9% of GDP. The World Bank has no recent central government expense or tax figures for Myanmar, so only GDP is compared.
Children only (under 18: 15.8 million) would cost 36.1 trillion Myanmar kyats a year (21.0% of GDP); adults only (18 and over: 39 million), 89 trillion Myanmar kyats (51.9%).
Default amount: 190,000 Myanmar kyats a month is the World Bank's international poverty line of $3.00 a day, converted into Myanmar kyats at the exchange rate implied by the World Bank's GDP in local currency and in US dollars (2025), because there is no recent PPP conversion factor, 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
- 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.