What would a basic income cost in Sudan?
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Total cost per year
124 trillion Sudanese pounds
about 56 billion US dollars
51.7 million people × 200,000 Sudanese pounds a month × 12 months
Compared with
- GDP (nominal) (2025)93.1%
Sudan in numbers
Sudan has a population of 51.7 million (2025) and a GDP of 133 trillion Sudanese pounds (about 60.2 billion US dollars) in 2025.
Paying everyone 200,000 Sudanese pounds a month would cost 124 trillion Sudanese pounds a year (about 56 billion US dollars), or 93.1% of GDP. The World Bank has no recent central government expense or tax figures for Sudan, so only GDP is compared.
Children only (under 18: 24.2 million) would cost 58 trillion Sudanese pounds a year (43.6% of GDP); adults only (18 and over: 27.5 million), 66 trillion Sudanese pounds (49.5%).
Default amount: 200,000 Sudanese pounds a month is the World Bank's international poverty line of $3.00 a day, converted into Sudanese pounds at the exchange rate implied by the World Bank's GDP in local currency and in US dollars (2025), 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.