What would a basic income cost in Türkiye?
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Total cost per year
1.65 trillion Turkish Lira
about 41.8 billion US dollars
85.9 million people × 1,600 Turkish Lira a month × 12 months
Compared with
- Government expense (central) (2023)7.9%
- Government revenue (central, excl. grants) (2024)8.3%
- Tax revenue (central government) (2024)14.8%
- GDP (nominal) (2025)2.6%
Türkiye in numbers
Türkiye has a population of 85.9 million (2025) and a GDP of 63 trillion Turkish Lira (about 1.6 trillion US dollars) in 2025.
Paying everyone 1,600 Turkish Lira a month would cost 1.65 trillion Turkish Lira a year (about 41.8 billion US dollars), or 2.6% of GDP. That equals 7.9% of central government expense (2023), 8.3% of its revenue (2024), and 14.8% of its tax revenue (2024).
Children only (under 18: 22.3 million) would cost 428 billion Turkish Lira a year (0.68% of GDP); adults only (18 and over: 63.6 million), 1.22 trillion Turkish Lira (1.9%).
Default amount: 1,600 Turkish Lira a month is the World Bank's international poverty line of $3.00 a day (2021 PPP), converted into Turkish Lira 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
- Government expense and tax revenue
- World Bank: central government expense, revenue excluding grants and tax revenue, % of GDP (GC.XPN.TOTL.GD.ZS, GC.REV.XGRT.GD.ZS, GC.TAX.TOTL.GD.ZS), 2023, 2024
- 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.