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=== Assistant: Good — I pulled official/press sources and converted each country’s 2025 sports / youth spending into both local curren… ===
Good — I pulled official/press sources and converted each country’s 2025 sports / youth spending into both local currency and an approximate USD equivalent so you can compare them quickly. I’ve kept every important assumption explicit.

==== 2025 — Sports / Youth spending (India, Uzbekistan, Egypt) ====

: Notes on scope & method: I used (a) the official Indian Budget demand for the Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports for FY 2025–26 (which is the clearest single-year figure for India), (b) official/major-press reporting on Uzbekistan’s announced sports allocations in 2025, and (c) Egyptian ministry / planning statements on investment allocations for youth & sports in 2025. I converted local currency → USD using mid-2025 exchange-rate averages (sources below). When a source was ambiguous (e.g., whether an Uzbek figure was an annual line item or an aggregated multi-year increase) I call that out. 
: India Budget
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: UzDaily.uz
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===== Summary table (2025 figures; USD converted using mid-2025 average rates) =====

| Country    | Reported 2025 sports/youth amount (local)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 | Approx. USD equivalent                                                                                                         |
| ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| India      | ₹3,794.30 crore (Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports — Budget 2025–26, Grand Total for the ministry). 
India Budget                                                                                                                                                                                                                        | ~$441 million (₹37,943,000,000 ÷ ~$86 USD/INR). 
x-rates.com
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| Uzbekistan | ~3,000,000,000,000 UZS (reported increase in budget allocations to sports; described in 2025 reporting as allocations rising to 3 trillion som). Source language describes this as the (current) allocation level reported in 2025. 
UzDaily.uz
+1                                                                                        | ~$250 million (3,000,000,000,000 UZS ÷ ~12,014 UZS/USD). 
Xe
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| Egypt      | EGP 1.9 billion (planning ministry reported EGP 1.9B allocated for sports & youth investments in FY 2025) + project-level investments reported by the Ministry of International Cooperation ~EGP 625M (youth) + EGP 627M (sports projects) (MOIC); combined ≈ EGP 3.152B if you treat both lines as part of 2025 spending. 
sis.gov.eg
+1 | EGP 1.9B ≈ $38.6M; projects (EGP 1.252B) ≈ $25.4M; combined ≈ $64.0M (USD conversion at ~49.24 EGP/USD). 
Exchange Rates UK
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==== Short takeaways ====
* India (~$441M) has by far the largest single-ministry allocation for youth & sports in 2025 among these three — driven by a large, consolidated ministry budget that includes Khelo India (₹1,000 crore) and major autonomous bodies (Sports Authority of India, etc.). India Budget<ref>{{cite web|title=India Budget|url=https://www.indiabudget.gov.in/doc/eb/sbe102.pdf|publisher=India Budget|access-date=2026-01-06}}</ref>
* Uzbekistan (~$250M) — reporting in 2025 highlights a rapid scaling of sports allocations (from 1.5 → 3 trillion som over the last four years) and strong political focus (presidential directives, infrastructure spending). The reporting frames 3 trillion som as the current allocation level in 2025, but local coverage sometimes mixes multi-year totals and annual allocations; treat the UZS figure as a government-stated 2025 allocation level (approx). UzDaily.uz<ref>{{cite web|title=UzDaily.uz|url=https://www.uzdaily.uz/en/uzbekistan-invests-3-trillion-soums-in-sports-over-four-years/|publisher=uzdaily.uz|access-date=2026-01-06}}</ref>
* Egypt (~$39M–$64M) — the Planning Ministry and MOIC show targeted investment lines (EGP 1.9B allocated for sports/youth services; plus project investments of ~EGP 1.252B). Even combining both, Egypt’s public sports spending in 2025 is well below India and Uzbekistan in USD terms. sis.gov.eg<ref>{{cite web|title=sis.gov.eg|url=https://sis.gov.eg/en/media-center/news/planning-min-egp-19-bn-allocated-for-sports-youth-services-in-current-fy/|publisher=sis.gov.eg|access-date=2026-01-06}}</ref>

==== Important caveats & context (don’t skip these) ====
# Different accounting scopes. India’s figure is the entire ministry budget (includes admin, SAI, federations support, Khelo India). Uzbekistan reporting highlights sectoral allocations and big infrastructure projects; some Uzbek coverage aggregates multi-year totals. Egypt’s numbers mix central budget allocations and specific investment project lines. That makes exact apples-to-apples comparisons imperfect — but the order-of-magnitude picture above is robust. India Budget<ref>{{cite web|title=India Budget|url=https://www.indiabudget.gov.in/doc/eb/sbe102.pdf|publisher=India Budget|access-date=2026-01-06}}</ref>
# Exchange-rate conversion uses mid-2025 averages (INR ≈ 86 / USD, UZS ≈ 12,014 / USD, EGP ≈ 49.24 / USD). Small changes in FX can move USD equivalents; local currency figures are the safer point of comparison. x-rates.com<ref>{{cite web|title=x-rates.com|url=https://www.x-rates.com/average/?amount=1&from=USD&to=INR&year=2025|publisher=x-rates.com|access-date=2026-01-06}}</ref>
# Private & extra-budgetary funding (corporate sponsorships, Olympic committees’ own funds, international grants, and donor projects) are not included here because they’re often off-budget and harder to capture reliably. Some nations supplement public spending heavily with such sources. (For India the ministry budget is only part of the whole sports ecosystem funding.) India Budget<ref>{{cite web|title=India Budget|url=https://www.indiabudget.gov.in/doc/eb/sbe102.pdf|publisher=India Budget|access-date=2026-01-06}}</ref>

==== Want this deeper? ====

I can (pick one or more):
* Show per-capita sports spending (spend ÷ population) for each country.
* Normalize by GDP (spend as % of GDP).
* Break India’s ₹3,794.30 crore into its major line-items (Khelo India, SAI, NSFs, etc.) — I already have that breakdown from the Budget doc. Tell me which normalisation you want and I’ll add the numbers + sources.