What would a basic income cost in the Northern Mariana Islands?
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Total cost per year
44.9 million US dollars
43,541 people × 86 US dollars a month × 12 months
Compared with
- GDP (nominal) (2022)4.1%
The Northern Mariana Islands in numbers
The Northern Mariana Islands has a population of 43,541 (2025) and a GDP of 1.1 billion US dollars in 2022.
Paying everyone 86 US dollars a month would cost 44.9 million US dollars a year, or 4.1% of GDP. The World Bank has no recent central government expense or tax figures for the Northern Mariana Islands, so only GDP is compared.
Children only (under 18: 11,615) would cost 12 million US dollars a year (1.1% of GDP); adults only (18 and over: 31,926), 32.9 million US dollars (3%).
Default amount: 86 US dollars a month is the World Bank's international poverty line of $3.00 a day (2021 PPP), converted into US dollars with the World Bank's PPP conversion factor for household consumption (2021) 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), 2021
- 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.