What would a basic income cost in Venezuela?
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Total cost per year
5.13 trillion Venezuelan bolívars
about 31 billion US dollars
28.5 million people × 15,000 Venezuelan bolívars a month × 12 months
Compared with
- GDP (nominal) (2025)31.1%
Venezuela in numbers
Venezuela has a population of 28.5 million (2025) and a GDP of 16.5 trillion Venezuelan bolívars (about 99.7 billion US dollars) in 2025.
Paying everyone 15,000 Venezuelan bolívars a month would cost 5.13 trillion Venezuelan bolívars a year (about 31 billion US dollars), or 31.1% of GDP. The World Bank has no recent central government expense or tax figures for Venezuela, so only GDP is compared.
Children only (under 18: 8.75 million) would cost 1.58 trillion Venezuelan bolívars a year (9.6% of GDP); adults only (18 and over: 19.8 million), 3.56 trillion Venezuelan bolívars (21.6%).
Default amount: 15,000 Venezuelan bolívars a month is the World Bank's international poverty line of $3.00 a day, converted into Venezuelan bolívars 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.