Top Gambling Nations
The casino has 800 gaming tables and 1,000 slot machines. It was also popular with poker players as it was the first one in Macau to hold Texas Hold ‘Em ring games. It was also the first casino in the city to offer craps, which has since become popular in other casinos in the area. 1 Casino de Monte Carlo – Monaco. The countries are ranked below by the revenue generated from gaming titles, excluding revenues from hardware sales, b2b services, online gambling, and betting. Unsurprisingly, China and USA topped.
You might already think you know the top one for this answer, but even I have to admit that I was surprised at the numbers involved in this list. So let’s tighten up our wallets and discover what is the world’s top 10 nations that spend the most on gambling…
10 – Spain (Annual Losses: £337.64 pp)
What you will come to discover about several of these nations is some gamble in different ways to others. Spain here spends most of the gambling money in sports bookies like William Hill.
9 – Greece (Annual Losses: £339.26 pp)
When you talk about gambling you might think of casinos or online gambling, but gambling has been of interest to the Greeks since ancient times and it is said that Poker originated with them. Most of their gambling money also goes onto bookies.
8 – Norway (Annual Losses: £361.87 pp)
This one might be a real surprise to most people as gambling in Norway is illegal for the most part! But there are still a few companies that are allowed to host casinos, but most the money spent is with online casinos.
7 – Hong Kong (Annual Losses: £406.30 pp)
It wasn’t until 1977 that people were finally allowed to gamble for leisure and entertainment. Even today it is tightly controlled by the government.
6 – Italy (Annual Losses: £417.61 pp)
One of the biggest gambling spends in Italy is a sort of bingo game called ‘Lo Giuoco del Lotto D’Italia’, but let’s face it, gambling has been with Italy since the Roman times.
5 – Finland (Annual Losses: £446.69 pp)
In Finland, it is all about the lottos. Both national ones and Euro ones. Sometimes these lottos have jackpots in the 100+ million.
4 – Canada (Annual Losses: £458.80 pp)
It is illegal to run an Internet gambling site Canada, but that doesn’t stop the people playing it hosted in other countries and that is where most their gambling money goes.
3 – Ireland (Annual Losses: £474.96 pp)
When it comes to Ireland it is all about the horse racing. While they do have a national lotto and loads of online sites, the track racing is still by far the biggest earner of their gambling cash.
2 – Singapore (Annual Losses: £948.30 pp)
Stats show us that tourists spend more money on shopping than gambling. But it is the locals who are the gamblers in this country.
1 – Australia (Annual Losses: £1040.39 pp)
Australia possesses over 20% of the world’s gaming machines (pokies) and when it comes to poker many of the top players in the world are Australian. Probably because they spend so much time playing their pokies machines. Or maybe it is because Australians can keep cool while under the hottest of situations.
The global gaming industry has seen a major boom in the past two decades, sprawling over multiple popular consoles like Microsoft Xbox, Sony PlayStation, Nintendo consoles, PCs and more.
The gaming industry sees thousands of gaming titles releasing every year and several hundreds of them garner major revenue from sales.
The countries are ranked below by the revenue generated from gaming titles, excluding revenues from hardware sales, b2b services, online gambling, and betting.
Unsurprisingly, China and USA topped the list with not a very significant gap in the revenues accumulated by developers in the two countries.
Also Read: Top 5 Steam Alternatives for Gamers.Although China generates more revenue than the US, the notable aspect is the former’s entire population dwarfs the latter.
Not only that, the internet population of China is more than three times that of US. Per se, if you look at the revenue generated by per-person basis, US tops the list.
Japan, Germany, and the UK occupied the next three spots on the ranking list, showing a steep decline in the revenues.
25 Countries Which Are Gamer’s Paradise
The list compiled by Newzoo ranks countries on the basis of revenue generated by gaming titles, which translates into how the number of users buying games, also gives an insight into the popularity of e-gaming in these nations.
According to Newzoo, “These estimates are based on a combination of primary consumer research, transactional data, quarterly company reports and census data.”
- China: $27.54 billion in revenues
- United States of America: $25.05 billion in revenues
- Japan: $12.54 billon in revenues
- Germany: $4.37 billion in revenues
- United Kingdom: $4.21 billion in revenues
- Republic of Korea: $4.18 billion in revenues
- France: $2.96 billion in revenues
- Canada: $1.94 billion in revenues
- Spain: $1.91 billion in revenues
- Italy: $1.87 billion in revenues
- Russian Federation: $1.48 billion in revenues
- Mexico: $1.42 billion in revenues
- Brazil: $1.33 billion in revenues
- Australia: $1.23 billion in revenues
- Taiwan: $1.02 billion in revenues
- Indonesia: $879 million in revenues
- India: $817 million in revenues
- Turkey: $773 million in revenues
- Saudi Arabia: $647 million in revenues
- Thailand: $597 million in revenues
- Malaysia: $586 million in revenues
- Netherlands: $567 million in revenues
- Poland: $489 million in revenues
- Iran: $431 million in revenues
- Argentina: $423 million in revenues
If you wish to know which other countries complete the top 100 gaming industries in the world taking revenues into account, check out the full list here.
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