What would a basic income cost in Pakistan?
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Total cost per year
18.4 trillion Pakistani rupees
about 65.8 billion US dollars
255 million people × 6,000 Pakistani rupees a month × 12 months
Compared with
- GDP (nominal) (2025)16.1%
Pakistan in numbers
Pakistan has a population of 255 million (2025) and a GDP of 114 trillion Pakistani rupees (about 407 billion US dollars) in 2025.
Paying everyone 6,000 Pakistani rupees a month would cost 18.4 trillion Pakistani rupees a year (about 65.8 billion US dollars), or 16.1% of GDP. The World Bank has no recent central government expense or tax figures for Pakistan, so only GDP is compared.
Children only (under 18: 110 million) would cost 7.88 trillion Pakistani rupees a year (6.9% of GDP); adults only (18 and over: 146 million), 10.5 trillion Pakistani rupees (9.2%).
Default amount: 6,000 Pakistani rupees a month is the World Bank's international poverty line of $3.00 a day (2021 PPP), converted into Pakistani rupees 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
- 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.