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Curaçao Total Sites: 1,255
The online gaming industry of Curaçao has been legal since 1993, when the National Ordinance on Offshore Games of Hazard entered into force. Online gaming is now licensed and supervised by the ...
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Malta Total Sites: 627
Online gambling is legal and highly regulated in Malta. The country is known for being one of the leading jurisdictions for online gambling regulation. Operators must obtain a license from the MGA to ...
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United Kingdom Total Sites: 663
For years, the U.K. maintained one of the most progressive regulatory frameworks for online gaming in the world. The Gambling Act 2005 modernized regulations, created the U.K. Gambling Commission and ...
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Cyprus Total Sites: 46
In January 2018, Cyprus resubmitted its proposed new regulatory framework for gambling after the European Commission and Malta opposed its original draft. The EU member state’s Betting Law of 2017 ...
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Brazil Total Sites: 21
In December 2018, Brazil’s outgoing president Michel Temer signed Provisional Measure 846/18 into law, which provides for the redistribution of part of the national lotteries’ proceeds, regulates ...
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Colombia Total Sites: 11
Colombia has a fully regulated online gaming market. Under the 2016 eGaming framework and subsequent decrees, online casino, sports betting, poker, bingo and other verticals are legal, provided ...
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Ghana Total Sites: 11
Ghana's Gaming Act of 2006 does not specifically prohibit or mention online gaming. Companies licensed by the GCG to offer games of chance may provide their services through land-based premises and ...
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Saint Kitts and Nevis Total Sites: 5
The Betting and Gaming Control law of 1999 allows for the Federation (the joint government between St. Kitts and Nevis) to issue online gaming licenses. Residents of the islands are not permitted to ...
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Mexico Total Sites: 29
Online gambling is regulated primarily through the Regulations to the Federal Law of Games and Raffles and by SEGOB’s administrative criteria, and licensed land-based casino operators have been ...
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Gibraltar Total Sites: 176
Gibraltar is a self-governing Overseas Territory. Until Brexit, it formed part of the EU via the U.K.; since the UK’s withdrawal, Gibraltar is treated as a third country, but it retains its own ...
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Cameroon Total Sites: 9
Online gambling remains a grey area when it comes to regulation. The lack of proper legislation has led to Cameroonian players using international/offshore gambling sites that accept play from ...
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Uganda Total Sites: 9
Uganda permits sports betting that takes place via the internet or mobile phones (SMS) and the current framework allows regulated online betting and gaming activities so long as operators are ...
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Mozambique Total Sites: 4
Mozambique legalized online gaming in 2010. Online gambling is a legal and regulated activity, with operators required to hold appropriate licences if their websites are accessible from Mozambican ...
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India Total Sites: 22
The Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act, 2025 prohibits online money games throughout India, regardless of whether they involve chance, skill or a combination of the two. It also prohibits ...
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Philippines Total Sites: 69
In July 2024, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. announced an immediate ban on Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGOs), citing their involvement in various criminal activities. This ban ...
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Nigeria Total Sites: 30
Nigeria’s laws now recognize online gambling as legal provided operators hold the appropriate licenses, but the landscape is fragmented: state regulators license online sports betting and other ...
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South Africa Total Sites: 19
In November 2018, South Africa’s parliamentary committee on Trade and Industry announced that it had adopted the National Gambling Amendment Act 2018.
Online betting for sports and horse racing is ...
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Kenya Total Sites: 21
Kenya has one of the most liberalized gambling industries in Africa, with most forms of gambling permitted, including casinos, betting, online betting, online casinos and mobile casinos, although the ...
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Spain Total Sites: 77
Spain's online gaming market officially opened on 5 June 2012, with the launch of .es dedicated websites. In the first three quarters of 2013 alone, the Spanish market generated EUR 168 million in ...
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California Total Sites: 11
Online casino gaming and online poker remain illegal in California. Despite repeated legislative attempts since 2008, ongoing disagreements among tribes, cardrooms, and racetracks have prevented any ...
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Italy Total Sites: 85
Online gambling in Italy has been legal since 2007, and virutally all kinds of online gambling are legal, except for betting on blood sport. The Abruzzo decree of 2009 legalized online poker, sports ...
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Ireland Total Sites: 35
Ireland began hosting online gaming sites in 2003. The first online bookmaking sites were launched in 2004. Ireland's bookmakers operate internet-based services under the terms of their bookmaking ...
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France Total Sites: 17
Historically, the French government limited gambling to a lottery, run by state-owned operation Groupe Française des Jeux, and horse racing, run by state-owned operation Pari Mutuel Urbain (PMU). All ...
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Alderney Total Sites: 173
The Alderney Gambling Control Commission (AGCC) was founded in May 2000 under the Gambling (Alderney) Law, 1999. It regulates only remote (online) gambling – land-based gambling in the Bailiwick is ...
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Sweden Total Sites: 110
After opening applications for online gambling licenses in early August 2018, Lotteriinspektionen, Sweden's gaming regulator, received more than 60 applications from online casino and sports betting ...
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