Is the competition to become an athlete more intense in track and field than in soccer?

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They say there are 40 million youth soccer players worldwide.
In baseball, there are 600,000.
So, you could say the competition in soccer is much tougher than in baseball.
If we apply this logic to track and field,
the number of youth track and field athletes themselves might not be that large,
but since everyone runs at least once in their lives, you need actual talent to become a professional athlete.
In that sense, the number of potential candidates could be seen as in the billions.
In that case, would it be correct to say that the difficulty of becoming an athlete in track and field is even higher than in soccer?