Re: Age restriction in gambling

Have you known that there is an age restriction in gambling? But it is varied among the countries in the world. I have just checked in wikipedia that commonly someone can play gambling starting from the age of 15/16/18/19/20/21 years. It depends on where he lives, every country may have different regulation related to the age restriction. Below I classify some countries based on the age restriction:

Age 5: Malawi (Casino)

Age 15: Iceland (lottery)

Age 16: United Kingdom (Football pool, Scratchcards), Estonia (other), New Zealand (instant kiwi)

Age 18: Australia, Kiribati, Nauru, New Zealand (horse racing), Palau, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Vanuatu, Albania, Austria, Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, México, etc

Age 19: South Korea, Canada, USA

Age 20: New Zealand (Casino), Sweden (Casino), Japan, Nigeria

Age 21: Belgium, Estonia (Casino), Armenia, India, Lebanon, Macau, Malaysia, Philippines (casino), Singapore, Taiwan, Vietnam, Cote d'Ivoire, Egypt, Namibia, Niger (casino), Bahamas, Saint Kitts and Nevis, US Virgin Islands (casino), USA, Macau

Age 23: Greece

Source & more detail information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambling_age#cite_note-27

Good information, I never thought that there will be other countries who let their people gamble even if they are still minor. In our country, you must be 18 and above in order to be allowed if you want to gamble in any type of games,lottery and etc.

Age 5 is the lowest and I am very surprised how the government of Malawi allowed it even if they have reason for it as they are encouraging the minors to gamble.

It is the first for me to see that there is a certain country which is the Malawi where they allowed children ages 5 years old and above to play casinos. I think the reason why they regulated it is because of their culture and tradition. I think the society accepted that kind of culture where they allow children to gamble.

Maybe that si their culture before we are now in the moderm world that a child need to focus to their study not to play gambling.
But if they are really ulture we need to respect that because we have own too.

But most of the certain country right now the age that we can play gambling is when the age reach 18 plus and above.