I got curious what region of the world is the most popular for gambling and I came across a ranking of countries based on their total gambling gross loss. The Top 5 are as follows:
1) United States, 2) China, 3) Japan, 4) Italy, and 5) Australia. As I expected US is the first when it comes to gambling.
Around 26% of US adults placed bets on the Superbowl in 2024, totaling around 23.1 billion dollars in wagers. This amount rose by approximately $7 billion compared to the previous year. Their total loss annually comes up to $116.9 billion. I am not surprised as well that China and Japan followed but what surprised me is Italy and Australia.
Traditional gambling activities like Baccarat and Fibonacci also originate from Italy. Venice and Milan are two of the country’s largest gambling hubs, featuring over 15 casinos. But Italy did not strike me as a country where people specifically visit to gamble in.
So we have a country for almost each region: north america, asia and australia. Did any of the countries in the list surprise you? Is there a particular country you want to visit purposefully just to gamble? Whole list can be seen
here.
How is that measured? According to the total population or according to what % of the population of each country that gambles? In my country, everyone gambles. Almost there is no man that doesn't gambles, so I'm sure that the USA's 26% means nothing, especially since they mention sports betting, because here every man, woman and child places a bet on a soccer match when there is an important match.
I'm surprised about Japan, I didn't know if they were gambling. I know about Italy and China, on Evolution live tables, lots of Italians and Chinese were gambling. Italians were mostly gambling on live blackjack and roulette tables but Chinese were gambling on Bacaraat, there were hundreds of Chinese on bacarrat tables, it was always full of them.