What would a basic income cost in Tunisia?
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Total cost per year
13.2 billion Tunisian dinars
about 4.4 billion US dollars
12.3 million people × 89 Tunisian dinars a month × 12 months
Compared with
- GDP (nominal) (2025)7.7%
Tunisia in numbers
Tunisia has a population of 12.3 million (2025) and a GDP of 172 billion Tunisian dinars (about 57.5 billion US dollars) in 2025.
Paying everyone 89 Tunisian dinars a month would cost 13.2 billion Tunisian dinars a year (about 4.4 billion US dollars), or 7.7% of GDP. The World Bank has no recent central government expense or tax figures for Tunisia, so only GDP is compared.
Children only (under 18: 3.48 million) would cost 3.72 billion Tunisian dinars a year (2.2% of GDP); adults only (18 and over: 8.87 million), 9.47 billion Tunisian dinars (5.5%).
Default amount: 89 Tunisian dinars a month is the World Bank's international poverty line of $3.00 a day (2021 PPP), converted into Tunisian dinars 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.