What would a basic income cost in Ukraine?
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Total cost per year
515 billion Ukrainian hryvnias
about 12.3 billion US dollars
39 million people × 1,100 Ukrainian hryvnias a month × 12 months
Compared with
- Government expense (central) (2023)8.8%
- Government revenue (central, excl. grants) (2024)17.1%
- Tax revenue (central government) (2024)27.4%
- GDP (nominal) (2025)5.8%
Ukraine in numbers
Ukraine has a population of 39 million (2025) and a GDP of 8.93 trillion Ukrainian hryvnias (about 214 billion US dollars) in 2025.
Paying everyone 1,100 Ukrainian hryvnias a month would cost 515 billion Ukrainian hryvnias a year (about 12.3 billion US dollars), or 5.8% of GDP. That equals 8.8% of central government expense (2023), 17.1% of its revenue (2024), and 27.4% of its tax revenue (2024).
Children only (under 18: 6.7 million) would cost 88.4 billion Ukrainian hryvnias a year (0.99% of GDP); adults only (18 and over: 32.3 million), 426 billion Ukrainian hryvnias (4.8%).
Default amount: 1,100 Ukrainian hryvnias a month is the World Bank's international poverty line of $3.00 a day (2021 PPP), converted into Ukrainian hryvnias 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.