What would a basic income cost in Oman?
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Total cost per year
1.12 billion Omani rials
about 2.92 billion US dollars
5.49 million people × 17 Omani rials a month × 12 months
Compared with
- GDP (nominal) (2025)2.7%
Oman in numbers
Oman has a population of 5.49 million (2025) and a GDP of 42.1 billion Omani rials (about 110 billion US dollars) in 2025.
Paying everyone 17 Omani rials a month would cost 1.12 billion Omani rials a year (about 2.92 billion US dollars), or 2.7% of GDP. The World Bank has no recent central government expense or tax figures for Oman, so only GDP is compared.
Children only (under 18: 1.54 million) would cost 314 million Omani rials a year (0.74% of GDP); adults only (18 and over: 3.96 million), 807 million Omani rials (1.9%).
Default amount: 17 Omani rials a month is the World Bank's international poverty line of $3.00 a day (2021 PPP), converted into Omani rials 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.
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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.