What would a basic income cost in New Caledonia?
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Total cost per year
35.4 billion CFP francs
about 321 million US dollars
295,333 people × 10,000 CFP francs a month × 12 months
Compared with
- GDP (nominal) (2024)3.8%
New Caledonia in numbers
New Caledonia has a population of 295,333 (2025) and a GDP of 943 billion CFP francs (about 8.55 billion US dollars) in 2024.
Paying everyone 10,000 CFP francs a month would cost 35.4 billion CFP francs a year (about 321 million US dollars), or 3.8% of GDP. The World Bank has no recent central government expense or tax figures for New Caledonia, so only GDP is compared.
Children only (under 18: 74,955) would cost 8.99 billion CFP francs a year (0.95% of GDP); adults only (18 and over: 220,378), 26.4 billion CFP francs (2.8%).
Default amount: 10,000 CFP francs a month is the World Bank's international poverty line of $3.00 a day, converted into CFP francs at the exchange rate implied by the World Bank's GDP in local currency and in US dollars (2024), 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.