Online Gambling Regulations
Interactive Atlas

The Gambling Regulation Map

Every territory coloured by the legal status of the selected vertical. Click a tracked country for its regulatory summary; open its full profile for the law, the regulator and the tax detail.

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Regulated
State monopoly
Grey market
Prohibited
Not yet documented
Reference table

Status by Country and Vertical

Jurisdiction CasinoBettingPokerLottery
United Kingdom Regulated Regulated Regulated State Monopoly
Germany Regulated Regulated Regulated State Monopoly
United States Grey Market Regulated Grey Market State Monopoly
Canada Regulated Regulated Regulated State Monopoly
Brazil Regulated Regulated Grey Market State Monopoly
Spain Regulated Regulated Regulated State Monopoly
Italy Regulated Regulated Regulated State Monopoly
Netherlands Regulated Regulated Regulated State Monopoly
Sweden Regulated Regulated Regulated State Monopoly
Australia Prohibited Regulated Prohibited State Monopoly
Status registry

Further Jurisdictions at a Glance

Statuses tracked for the map and the registry below; detailed country profiles for these jurisdictions are being published progressively.

Jurisdiction CasinoBettingPokerLottery
Argentina Regulated Regulated Regulated State Monopoly
Austria State Monopoly Regulated — State Monopoly
Belgium Regulated Regulated Regulated State Monopoly
Chile Grey Market Grey Market — State Monopoly
China Prohibited Prohibited Prohibited State Monopoly
Colombia Regulated Regulated Regulated Regulated
Czechia Regulated Regulated Regulated Regulated
Denmark Regulated Regulated Regulated State Monopoly
Finland State Monopoly State Monopoly State Monopoly State Monopoly
France Prohibited Regulated Regulated State Monopoly
Greece Regulated Regulated Regulated State Monopoly
India Grey Market Grey Market Grey Market State Monopoly
Ireland Grey Market Regulated — State Monopoly
Japan Prohibited State Monopoly Prohibited State Monopoly
Kenya Grey Market Regulated — Regulated
Malta Regulated Regulated Regulated Regulated
Mexico Grey Market Regulated — State Monopoly
New Zealand Grey Market State Monopoly — State Monopoly
Nigeria Grey Market Regulated — Regulated
Norway State Monopoly State Monopoly State Monopoly State Monopoly
Peru Regulated Regulated — Regulated
Philippines Regulated Regulated Regulated State Monopoly
Poland State Monopoly Regulated State Monopoly State Monopoly
Portugal Regulated Regulated Regulated State Monopoly
Romania Regulated Regulated Regulated State Monopoly
Singapore Prohibited State Monopoly — State Monopoly
South Africa Prohibited Regulated — State Monopoly
Switzerland Regulated State Monopoly Regulated State Monopoly
Thailand Prohibited Prohibited — State Monopoly
United Arab Emirates Grey Market Regulated — Regulated
Reference desk

Reading the Map

What do the map colours mean?
Each country is coloured by the legal status of the selected vertical: regulated (locally licensed), state monopoly (exclusive state operator), grey (neither licensed nor effectively prohibited), prohibited, and no data. The toggle above the map switches the vertical — a country’s colour can change completely between casino and betting, which is rather the point.
How many countries does the atlas track?
Two tiers: ten jurisdictions carry full profiles — statutes, taxes, regulators, sources — and a wider set of countries carries verified status-only data that colours the map. The status table below the map lists the second tier; the country index lists the first.
Why does a country show different statuses per vertical?
Because regulation is vertical-by-vertical almost everywhere: Australia licenses online wagering but prohibits online casino; Germany licenses slots federally while table games remain a Länder matter; the US regulates sports betting in ~38 states but casino in only eight. A single per-country verdict would be wrong more often than right.
Why are some small jurisdictions hard to find?
The base map renders at a world scale on which microstates — Malta and Singapore among them — have no drawable land area. Their data still exists in the atlas: Malta’s regulator and licence pages are among the most detailed here, linked from the regulator and licence indexes.