What would a basic income cost in Suriname?
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Total cost per year
10.7 billion Surinamese dollars
about 288 million US dollars
639,850 people × 1,400 Surinamese dollars a month × 12 months
Compared with
- GDP (nominal) (2025)6.4%
Suriname in numbers
Suriname has a population of 639,850 (2025) and a GDP of 169 billion Surinamese dollars (about 4.52 billion US dollars) in 2025.
Paying everyone 1,400 Surinamese dollars a month would cost 10.7 billion Surinamese dollars a year (about 288 million US dollars), or 6.4% of GDP. The World Bank has no recent central government expense or tax figures for Suriname, so only GDP is compared.
Children only (under 18: 195,105) would cost 3.28 billion Surinamese dollars a year (1.9% of GDP); adults only (18 and over: 444,745), 7.47 billion Surinamese dollars (4.4%).
Default amount: 1,400 Surinamese dollars a month is the World Bank's international poverty line of $3.00 a day (2021 PPP), converted into Surinamese dollars 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.