What would a basic income cost in Vietnam?
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Total cost per year
805 trillion Vietnamese dong
about 32.2 billion US dollars
102 million people × 660,000 Vietnamese dong a month × 12 months
Compared with
- GDP (nominal) (2025)6.3%
Vietnam in numbers
Vietnam has a population of 102 million (2025) and a GDP of 12,800 trillion Vietnamese dong (about 515 billion US dollars) in 2025.
Paying everyone 660,000 Vietnamese dong a month would cost 805 trillion Vietnamese dong a year (about 32.2 billion US dollars), or 6.3% of GDP. The World Bank has no recent central government expense or tax figures for Vietnam, so only GDP is compared.
Children only (under 18: 27.8 million) would cost 220 trillion Vietnamese dong a year (1.7% of GDP); adults only (18 and over: 73.8 million), 584 trillion Vietnamese dong (4.5%).
Default amount: 660,000 Vietnamese dong a month is the World Bank's international poverty line of $3.00 a day (2021 PPP), converted into Vietnamese dong 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.