Where does your country stand ?

[ChiBitCTy]

Ugh oh don’t let China see that you said Hong Kong is a country     These seem to all be relatively smaller populated countries. Kind of surprised to not see the United States on the list but I think soon we will. Like with marijuana legalization, gambling laws have massively eased up and continue to get more and more so. You can’t go to a gas station without seeing a couple video poker machines. Finally.

[bittraffic]

Not found in the list also. Its obvious that even when half the whole population in my country will gamble, we won't still be on the list. Gambling is a very big industry and  government can easily get money from it that's why these casinos also have charity program but still not losing huge profit.

US is not found when there are bigger casinos there which the entire Las Vegas lives thru the tourist gambling everyday.

[samcrypto]

I was just as surprised as you guys since I did expect other countries to show up here as well instead of the ones that already did but you can recheck the same on the source : https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.worldatlas.com/amp/articles/countries-that-gamble-the-most.html
Other than that US , Canada,. Japan , UK are few of the countries known for their absolute support of the crypto casinos as well.
What about your country as well ??

The article date was April 2017, and mostly the data gathered from the year 2010 - 2011 so I don't see this one as accurate and I think its already outdated.

I can't see my country but in terms of growth in the past year, my country suddenly becomes active in online gambling and this industry consider already as one of the major contributor based on their taxes. I'm shock not to see USA on the list, they have a huge city made for gambling, I wonder why they are not on the list. Crypto casinos should also be available, let's see if they are slowly getting near to the data of fiat casinos.

[Poker Player]

My country is not there either, but there is one thing that has caught my attention.

This is kinda interesting and when I search the internet I also found this list of the Country that lose the most in gambling.  I don't know how this correlates on the Country that gambling the most but it looks like the list is somehow the same.  

It is normal that it is more or less the same, since gambling is a game of negative mathematical expectation, which means that if we consider the big numbers, as in this case, which is considered what a whole country bets in a year, there is a direct correlation between the money bet and the money lost.

This link is more recent statistics (2016) hopefully someone can share the latest statistics on this one.

I am struck by the case of the United States, which although it is not the first in terms of gambling per adult, it is the first in terms of total losses. I guess it is because being a rich country, there are many whales with money that gamble and end up losing a lot of money. . This is consistent with my experience with poker. Although one may think that US players are good at playing poker because it is a tradition in their country, the average player there is very bad, he is more of a recreational player who plays for fun or to pass the time.

[mindrust]

My country is not in the list. There are lots of casino fans here too but the majority of the population is not a fan because there are lots of religious people here. Playing on foreign casinos is also a crime here and that makes things harder for the players. It is not a problem for the crypto owners because the government can't track them down yet.

[Cling18]

My country isn't on the list either but there's a huge number of gamblers in our country and most of them are really hooked on gambling and it's becoming the root of most crimes here. Some people are stealing and even killed because of gambling addiction. I'm just wondering how the given list was calculated but I wasn't surprised with the countries listed.

[_act_]

1. Australia
2. Singapore ( they only opened their first casino in 2010!)
3. Ireland
4. Canada
5. Finland
6. Italy
7. Hong Kong
8. Norway
9. Greece
10. Spain !!

I was surprised I did not see any country from Africa among the countries you listed, the list is inaccurate in my opinion, I just checked another site which I think will have more accurate information as one Africa country from West Africa which is Nigeria is among, people know how Nigerians have so many online gambling sites that are growing daily which is an indication that Nigerians are gamblimg. Also another country from the East Africa which is Kenya.

China
United Kingdom
India
Australia and New Zealand
Canada
Nigeria
Mexico
Singapore
Italy
Kenya

https://totalfootballanalysis.com/opinion/top-11-countries-sports-betting-popular

[xSkylarx]

Not in that list, but I understand that a lot of gambling dens are found underground and have no official license to the government, hence why they are not counted to the statistics (Philippines). Cockfighting however, is approved by even the president himself, stating that if we are to stop said operations of cockfighting, the government will lose millions of dollars in taxes per month that could have subsidized some government projects. It is true, but this country has always been against gambling (lol), unless it benefits them directly.

Casinos are still heavily frowned upon here in the Philippines, unless the operator is of foreign origin. Not sure why but it has been like that for far too long.

Philippines is really underrated when it comes to gambling ranking since small time gambling such as street bets, card games in the house, bingos and other form recreational gambling is not counted on survey. My statement seems like I’m being concerned about rankings in gambling. Haha, But real talk, Every place here in PH has a lot of gambling even on sports and other activities, Filipino really love to involve money on anything that they will do.

Yes, I agree! This is what I believe is the reason why the Philippines is not on the list because most gambling activities are illegal and not registered with the government. Most of the casinos in our country are owned and operated by Chinese investors who knows that a lot of Filipinos are very interested in gambling and that they can earn money from it. They are one of the highest tax payers in the government, which explains why they are so fond of this industry. Whether our country is on the list or not has no impact on us because it is only a list. However, if you come to visit us, I am confident that you will see gambling activities on the streets or cockfighting wherever you go.

[Mauser]

I was just as surprised as you guys since I did expect other countries to show up here as well instead of the ones that already did but you can recheck the same on the source : https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.worldatlas.com/amp/articles/countries-that-gamble-the-most.html
Other than that US , Canada,. Japan , UK are few of the countries known for their absolute support of the crypto casinos as well.
What about your country as well ??

Is there only an issue for me on that website, or can none of you scroll down in the list? For me it only shows 10 countries that gamble the most. I was hoping for the full list to check out other countries too, or it might just be an issue in my browser. Half of the countries among the Top 10 I wouldn't have expected on that list. For Spain and Greece I know that they like to gamble a lot, but countries like Norway or Finland I always thought of being very disciplined. Seeing them on the list is very new to me. Las Vegas might be very big, but so is the whole USA. For them to be on the list it would probably need a few more Las Vegas all around the States. Doesn't it seem a bit off that the list only focuses on the average gambling losses per adults? So this list should be rather called the countries which losses the most in gambling? Maybe there are other countries who are better at winning ?

[Crypto Library]

Philippines is really underrated when it comes to gambling ranking since small time gambling such as street bets, card games in the house, bingos and other form recreational gambling is not counted on survey. My statement seems like I’m being concerned about rankings in gambling. Haha, But real talk, Every place here in PH has a lot of gambling even on sports and other activities, Filipino really love to involve money on anything that they will do.

Dude not just Philippines is underrated there are a lot's countries which is underrated to gambling ranking. There are lot's countries which declared gambling as illegal . Even then it can be seen that gambling is going on openly or secretly in those countries.
But I'm little bit surprised that there is no name of us in the list

[bitbollo]

I am not at all surprised to see Italy always in the first places in all the rankings
Here there has been a "boom" in legalized gambling (eg scratch cards and lotto-style lotteries) made directly by national government.
Examples, draw on tv show during dinner time and so on...

Then there was a large investment in the private advertising sector with the various slot machine (local industries were born with billions as affair) and later we have seen a lot of "bingo" born.

We then experienced a further spread of online gaming with sports betting.
The only sector in decline was that of live casinos (probably because these gaming offers are aimed directly to poor population).

The problem of gambling has become so acute nationwide that nowadays a law has been passed that prohibits advertising on television or radio!!!

Unfortunately, many got into debt and created family disasters. We went from a "pure fun" approach to a real economic disaster

[Kakmakr]

I am kinda blown away with Australia coming in on the first place.... seeing that one of the biggest Crypto casinos, namely Stake.com are blocked in Australia and the co-owner are from Australia. He is streaming every weekend via a VPN on his own casino, because Stake.com is being blocked by most 3rd party Slot providers.

The IGA makes it an offense to provide certain gambling services to a customer physically present in Australia via the Internet.  Exceptions exist for licensed services that provide online wagering, sports betting and lotteries. Source : https://austgamingcouncil.org.au/seeking-help/illegal-offshore-gambling

Thank you OP, that was a great surprise. 

[BitcoinAccepted]

I don't understand how this data can be accurate. The article from the OP states that Singapore opened its first casino in 2010 yet also claims that the country lost $1,174 per adult in 2010. How can this be?

Double check it. I think the list is from 2014 based on the image but it is surprising that Singapore is the second even though they just opened their casino last 2010 I was wondering how do they make statistics about losing.

[rhomelmabini]

This is in order right? I wonder why USA isn't really there when in fact they are the known hotspot for gambling in the world. Macau wasn't on the list as well even though they are the known hotspot for gamblers here in Asia, I'll agree if this survey was done during the lockdown and not when it was permitted already personally to attend every casino.

[Similificator]

There definitely are quite a few countries that I did not expect to show up in such a list. You really cannot judge a country based on just a few things you know about them. And yup, as expected my country is nowhere to be found on the list. I gotta say though, Singapore is quite amazing.

[arwin100]

This is in order right? I wonder why USA isn't really there when in fact they are the known hotspot for gambling in the world. Macau wasn't on the list as well even though they are the known hotspot for gamblers here in Asia, I'll agree if this survey was done during the lockdown and not when it was permitted already personally to attend every casino.

USA has tight regulation towards gambling so maybe this is the reason why the number of gamblers decrease and not surprise for them not to be on the list knowing many casino ban US citizens to play on their casino.

I'm surprised for the other listed especially Italy and Finland since I didn't expect that they will be listed on top 10 but guess gambling is rampant there since statistics will not lie.

[AicecreaME]

I check the site and it didn’t says there about crypto gambling, this might a whole casinos data and its hard to know how accurate those data. I didn’t see my country on the list but I can say that we are very open to gambling and our government support this one because it generates a lot of tax, maybe these countries can change from time to time, its hard to know.

I didn't see our country in the list as well, but just like you, our government is not really strict about gambling. Gambling is legal in our place as long as it follows the specific protocols and have license to operate. In addition, they must pay taxes too because that's how the government generate income to make infrastructure and other projects. Which I believe is fair and just because after all, gambling is still a business that should pay due diligence.

When it comes to the data, the information from a website most especially if it's a survey would really vary from time to time because certain conditions can either improve or make it worse. It would be better if OP double checked whether the data provided in the site is still up to date. Although, we can do that ourselves.

[traderethereum]

I don't think my country has a high level of gambling but I don't know if it's offline gambling because I see there are still many people secretly gambling.
The enforcement officers are constantly trying to catch the offline gamblers so this may be why no statistical data is showing how high the level of gambling is.
I wonder why China hasn't been included in the list because I feel China has a high level of gambling compared to other countries.
Surprisingly, Singapore can be number 2 on that list.

[dothebeats]

Not in that list, but I understand that a lot of gambling dens are found underground and have no official license to the government, hence why they are not counted to the statistics (Philippines). Cockfighting however, is approved by even the president himself, stating that if we are to stop said operations of cockfighting, the government will lose millions of dollars in taxes per month that could have subsidized some government projects. It is true, but this country has always been against gambling (lol), unless it benefits them directly.

Casinos are still heavily frowned upon here in the Philippines, unless the operator is of foreign origin. Not sure why but it has been like that for far too long.

Philippines is really underrated when it comes to gambling ranking since small time gambling such as street bets, card games in the house, bingos and other form recreational gambling is not counted on survey. My statement seems like I’m being concerned about rankings in gambling. Haha, But real talk, Every place here in PH has a lot of gambling even on sports and other activities, Filipino really love to involve money on anything that they will do.

Before we went to the US on my teenager days, I experienced playing dice, cara y crus, color games, and all that stuff that are unregulated and can only be found in the streets, fiesta carnivals, or some random guy's house. Also have jueteng, mahjong, and a lot of card games that goes highly unnoticed too, and is sometimes under the protection of local politicians or the police themselves.

Heck, I imagine that if these statistics include those, the Philippines will be in that top 10 list for damn sure

[YOSHIE]

2. Singapore ( they only opened their first casino in 2010!)

I've read about the biggest gambling industry in the world, the country you mentioned is correct, they are included in the list of the 10 biggest gambling addict countries.

What is interesting and the attraction about the gambling industry in the future is the country of Singapore, for now Singapore is placing the second top position, This does not escape the tourist attraction and amusement rides that make gambling addicts in Singapore a positive impact, maybe as a global destination Singapore can beat Las Vegas one day in the world of gambling.

As i know tourists who want to gamble and upscale and the lodging for them has increased to one more week, which used to only stay 1-2 days, It can be seen that Singapore does not only offer gambling, it is also a place of entertainment that is quite interesting and entertaining for tourists.