Casino Online Gambling on the World Map

We have studied gambling laws around the world, focusing on the online casino legislation. The laws are complicated and any such study would have some shortcomings and room for improvement. Our initial goal was to cover all countries and territories, obtain information from local, reliable sources, and come up with a simple classification.

The good news is that more and more countries choose to regulate online gambling in some way, rather than simply ban it. Another piece of good news is that even when online gambling is restricted, regular players are not held responsible in most cases. Also, a large number of countries do not prohibit online gambling simply because they do not have any relevant laws.



The link to the full report with various stats and graphs is in my signature. The report also links to the source data. I will be glad to hear any corrections, especially from the locals of the respective country. We plan to keep those tables up to date in the future and follow the legislation trends.

Additionally, we compiled the country restriction data from 600+ actual online casinos to find out which countries appear more often on the casinos' "can't register" list and produced the "best 10 countries" and "worst 10 countries" charts. Now, exclusively for Casinomeister forum readers I have reproduced those two charts only based on the casinos which are accredited here at CM.



Those reproduced tens differed from the originals quite a bit. Surprisingly, the US players are not the ones who suffer most from inability to play in a reputable, accredited casino - the prize goes to France. Also, United Kingdom now made it to that worst 10. Another notable change is the magnitude of those percentage values in general. For example, French gamblers are able to play in about 30% of all online casinos, and only in less than 10% of the accredited ones. The same is true for other often-restricted countries, meaning that the casinos their citizens are allowed in are generally of lesser quality.

On the other side of the spectrum are Austria, Portugal, Iceland, Finland and others where people can register in more than 90% of the accredited casinos.



Questions, comments, and critique is very welcome.

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