What would a basic income cost in Sint Maarten?
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Total cost per year
84.3 million Caribbean guilders
about 47.1 million US dollars
43,923 people × 160 Caribbean guilders a month × 12 months
Compared with
- GDP (nominal) (2025)2.5%
Sint Maarten in numbers
Sint Maarten has a population of 43,923 (2025) and a GDP of 3.38 billion Caribbean guilders (about 1.89 billion US dollars) in 2025.
Paying everyone 160 Caribbean guilders a month would cost 84.3 million Caribbean guilders a year (about 47.1 million US dollars), or 2.5% of GDP. The World Bank has no recent central government expense or tax figures for Sint Maarten, so only GDP is compared.
Children only (under 18: 8,229) would cost 15.8 million Caribbean guilders a year (0.47% of GDP); adults only (18 and over: 35,694), 68.5 million Caribbean guilders (2%).
Default amount: 160 Caribbean guilders a month is the World Bank's international poverty line of $3.00 a day, converted into Caribbean guilders 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.
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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.