What would a basic income cost in Mozambique?
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Total cost per year
983 billion Mozambican meticals
about 15.3 billion US dollars
35.6 million people × 2,300 Mozambican meticals a month × 12 months
Compared with
- Government expense (central) (2022)264%
- Government revenue (central, excl. grants) (2024)280%
- Tax revenue (central government) (2024)314%
- GDP (nominal) (2025)68.7%
Mozambique in numbers
Mozambique has a population of 35.6 million (2025) and a GDP of 1.43 trillion Mozambican meticals (about 22.3 billion US dollars) in 2025.
Paying everyone 2,300 Mozambican meticals a month would cost 983 billion Mozambican meticals a year (about 15.3 billion US dollars), or 68.7% of GDP. That equals 264% of central government expense (2022), 280% of its revenue (2024), and 314% of its tax revenue (2024).
Children only (under 18: 18.2 million) would cost 502 billion Mozambican meticals a year (35.1% of GDP); adults only (18 and over: 17.4 million), 481 billion Mozambican meticals (33.6%).
Default amount: 2,300 Mozambican meticals a month is the World Bank's international poverty line of $3.00 a day (2021 PPP), converted into Mozambican meticals 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), 2022, 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.