However, it’s impossible to accurately estimate how many active gamblers there are in the country. Note that while gambling is illegal in China, the country still accounts for a significant portion of active global gamblers thanks in part to the casino industry in Macau, as well as due to revenues from Chinese gamblers visiting other South East Asian countries to gamble at casinos. įocusing on some of the largest gambling markets across the world, the number of active gamblers is as follows: Īustralia has the highest rate of gambling activity among its adult population with as many as 73% of adults having gambled in the past 12 months. A recent study carried out across 44 countries revealed that 56% of those surveyed have gambled at least once in the past 12 months.
It is estimated that around 26% of the world’s population have gambled at some point in their lives.Īpproximately 4.2 billion people gamble at least once a year. Popular forms of gambling worldwide include sports-betting, lotteries, scratch-cards, casino games (like Blackjack, Roulette, Keno), bingo and card-games like poker. The global gambling industry services billions of gamblers each year, both online and in land-based gambling establishments like casinos, bingo-halls and poker rooms and even in unusual places like cruise ships and Las Vegas airports.
