Table.
Global trends in gambling legislation and regulation between 2018 and 2021
| Countries where gambling is legislated at the country or federal level* | Any legal gambling | Any kind of legislative or regulatory change |
Introduced (or reintroduced) regulatory controls for legal gambling |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Restricting locations of gambling venues | Restricting advertisement and other forms of marketing | Changes to player data handling requirements | Legal age raised | New or stricter spending or loss limits | ||||
| Europe (50 countries) | 49 (100·0%) | 48 (98·0%) | 36 (73·5%) | 12 (24·5%) | 21 (42·9%) | 14 (28·6%) | 4 (8·2%) | 4 (8·2%) |
| Asia (45 countries) | 44 (100·0%) | 27 (61·4%) | 12 (27·3%) | 1 (2·3%) | 3 (6·8%) | 2 (4.5%) | .. | .. |
| Africa (54 countries) | 53 (100·0%) | 46 (86·8%) | 10 (18·9%) | 3 (5·7%) | 6 (11·3%) | 1 (1·9%) | .. | .. |
| Americas (37 countries) | 34 (100·0%) | 33 (97·1%) | 8 (23·5%) | 3 (8·8%) | 3 (8·8%) | 1 (2·9%) | .. | .. |
| Oceania (14 countries) | 13 (100·0%) | 10 (76·9%) | 1 (7·7%) | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| World (200 countries) | 193 (100·0%) | 164 (85·0%) | 67 (34·7%) | 19 (9·8%) | 33 (17·1%) | 18 (9·3%) | 4 (2·1%) | 4 (2·1%) |
*
Seven countries were excluded from the overview based on this criterion: Bosnia and Herzegovina (Europe); India (Asia); Kenya (Africa); Argentina, Canada, and the USA (Americas); and Australia (Oceania). In these countries, gambling is legislated primarily at the state, province, or regional level. Inclusion of jurisdiction-level data from these countries was considered unfeasible, as it would skew the results. Source: VIXIO Gambling Compliance database29 with additional web scraping conducted by the research team.