What would a basic income cost in Seychelles?
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Total cost per year
1.13 billion Seychellois rupees
about 77 million US dollars
122,730 people × 770 Seychellois rupees a month × 12 months
Compared with
- GDP (nominal) (2025)3.2%
Seychelles in numbers
Seychelles has a population of 122,730 (2025) and a GDP of 35.2 billion Seychellois rupees (about 2.39 billion US dollars) in 2025.
Paying everyone 770 Seychellois rupees a month would cost 1.13 billion Seychellois rupees a year (about 77 million US dollars), or 3.2% of GDP. The World Bank has no recent central government expense or tax figures for Seychelles, so only GDP is compared.
Children only (under 18: 31,214) would cost 288 million Seychellois rupees a year (0.82% of GDP); adults only (18 and over: 91,516), 846 million Seychellois rupees (2.4%).
Default amount: 770 Seychellois rupees a month is the World Bank's international poverty line of $3.00 a day (2021 PPP), converted into Seychellois 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.