What would a basic income cost in Kosovo?
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Total cost per year
1.53 billion euros
about 1.73 billion US dollars
1.58 million people × 81 euros a month × 12 months
Compared with
- GDP (nominal) (2025)13.9%
Kosovo in numbers
Kosovo has a population of 1.58 million (2025) and a GDP of 11 billion euros (about 12.5 billion US dollars) in 2025.
Paying everyone 81 euros a month would cost 1.53 billion euros a year (about 1.73 billion US dollars), or 13.9% of GDP. The World Bank has no recent central government expense or tax figures for Kosovo, so only GDP is compared.
Children only (under 18: 420,621) would cost 409 million euros a year (3.7% of GDP); adults only (18 and over: 1.16 million), 1.12 billion euros (10.2%).
Default amount: 81 euros a month is the World Bank's international poverty line of $3.00 a day, converted into euros 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.