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Where the budget goes

Every year a government announces a budget so large it stops meaning anything. This app turns that headline into slices you can open: pick a country, see where every rupee, dollar or yen actually lands, and drill into any line. The sharpest lesson: a surprising share never buys a single school or road — it just pays interest on money borrowed long ago.

15national budgets, one tap apart

₹1 in ₹5of India's budget is interest on old debt

47%of Pakistan's is gone before anything is built

Data: national budget documents, 2025–26 (Union Budget, CBO, MoF and peers) · shares rounded · FX to INR approximate.

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Whose money?

15 governments, latest budgets — India is preselected

Tax you paid last year (optional) Turns every line into your own money — leave it blank and we use the average citizen’s share instead

Explore the budget

Tap a line to open what’s inside it — every figure is rupees out of the same 1,000.