What would a basic income cost in Russia?
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Total cost per year
4.82 trillion Russian rubles
about 57.6 billion US dollars
144 million people × 2,800 Russian rubles a month × 12 months
Compared with
- Government expense (central) (2023)7.5%
- Government revenue (central, excl. grants) (2024)8.1%
- Tax revenue (central government) (2024)20.7%
- GDP (nominal) (2025)2.3%
Russia in numbers
Russia has a population of 144 million (2025) and a GDP of 214 trillion Russian rubles (about 2.56 trillion US dollars) in 2025.
Paying everyone 2,800 Russian rubles a month would cost 4.82 trillion Russian rubles a year (about 57.6 billion US dollars), or 2.3% of GDP. That equals 7.5% of central government expense (2023), 8.1% of its revenue (2024), and 20.7% of its tax revenue (2024).
Children only (under 18: 29.6 million) would cost 994 billion Russian rubles a year (0.46% of GDP); adults only (18 and over: 114 million), 3.83 trillion Russian rubles (1.8%).
Default amount: 2,800 Russian rubles a month is the World Bank's international poverty line of $3.00 a day (2021 PPP), converted into Russian rubles 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), 2023, 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.