What would a basic income cost in Turkmenistan?
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Total cost per year
45.7 billion Turkmenistani manat
about 8.41 billion US dollars
7.62 million people × 500 Turkmenistani manat a month × 12 months
Compared with
- GDP (nominal) (2025)16.9%
Turkmenistan in numbers
Turkmenistan has a population of 7.62 million (2025) and a GDP of 271 billion Turkmenistani manat (about 49.8 billion US dollars) in 2025.
Paying everyone 500 Turkmenistani manat a month would cost 45.7 billion Turkmenistani manat a year (about 8.41 billion US dollars), or 16.9% of GDP. The World Bank has no recent central government expense or tax figures for Turkmenistan, so only GDP is compared.
Children only (under 18: 2.75 million) would cost 16.5 billion Turkmenistani manat a year (6.1% of GDP); adults only (18 and over: 4.87 million), 29.2 billion Turkmenistani manat (10.8%).
Default amount: 500 Turkmenistani manat a month is the World Bank's international poverty line of $3.00 a day, converted into Turkmenistani manat 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.