The Gambling Commission has published industry statistics for the period between April 2024 and March 2025, and Q1 2025, as part of its initiative to operate the industry in a transparent and collaborative manner.
FY2025: April 2024 to March 2025
During this time, the gross gambling yield (GGY) of the customer-facing gambling industry in the UK reached £16.8bn ($22.09bn), which was a 7.3% increase compared to FY2024.
When excluding all lottery products, the GGY was still significant at £12.6bn, which represented a 9.3% increase.
The land-based sector accounted for around a third of all GGY, and increased by 3.6%, totalling £4.8bn.
Gaming machines were tracked separately from arcades, betting, bingo and casino GGY, with these bringing in £2.6bn in a 2.9% increase.
The remote sector brought in the rest of the calculated GGY with £7.8bn and grew 13.1% during this time - the largest increase in the sector.
When broken down into the different verticals, online casino games dominated with £5bn, £4.2bn of which came from slot games.
Remote betting totalled £2.6bn, which was led by £1.3bn in football and £766.7m in horseracing.
The final £165.6m came from remote bingo - while its counterpart in non-remote bingo saw a 3.5% increase to £650m.
The National Lottery gave £1.6bn to good causes in this year period, an increase of 4.5%; while other large society lotteries increased their contribution by 4.8% to £484.6m.
The number of licensed gambling premises fell 1.1% to 8,234, with betting shops accounting for 5,825 of these - they decreased by 1.8%.
A total of 2,179 gambling operators were present in the market, while 3,086 gambling activities were licensed, representing a decrease of 3.7% and 2.3% respectively.
Q1: April to June 2025
During Q1, the GGY from across the gambling industry hit £3.3bn, although this excluded reported lotteries.
The remote casino, bingo and betting sector brought in £2bn - which was bolstered by £1.4bn coming from remote casinos specifically.
The non-remote casino, bingo and betting sector achieved just over half of this at £1.2bn - with £622m coming from non-remote betting specifically.
Since March 2025, the number of premises in the UK dipped to 8,219 and the number of betting shops also fell to 5,789.
Finally, the number of machines that were licensed by the Gambling Commission sat at 188,559.
The Gambling Survey for Great Britain (GSGB)
Outside of reporting on statistics, but still relevant to the production of them, the Gambling Commission awarded a four-year contract to the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) and the University of Glasgow to ensure the continued work on the Gambling Survey for Great Britain (GSGB).
Since its launch, the GSGB has become one of the largest and most comprehensive gambling surveys in the world.
The survey analyses why people gamble, the characteristics of more frequent gamblers, and the relationship between specific gambling activities and Problem Gambling Severity Index (PGSI) scores.
Mari Toomse-Smith, National Centre for Social Research Director of Health and Biomedical Surveys, said: "We are honoured to have been trusted by the Gambling Commission to lead on the delivery of the GSGB.
"We worked closely with the Commission to design a state-of-the-art survey and are pleased to be able to continue the GSGB journey with the Gambling Commission and the University of Glasgow.
"GSGB plays a pivotal role at the UK gambling data infrastructure, and its potential will only grow with each new survey year."
Professor Heather Wardle, said: "We are delighted to extend our contract with the Gambling Commission and our work on the GSGB.
"We're excited to work with the Commission to explore how we can further enhance the GSGB, looking at how survey data can be merged with information about gambling from other sources, and looking at how we can better understand how behaviours change over time.
"We're especially well placed to do this, having led methodological innovation on understanding gambling for the last 20 years."
As the GSGB continues to evolve, the next steps will explore the potential for longitudinal research and data linkage.
Tim Miller, Executive Director of Research and Policy, said: "The Gambling Survey for Great Britain has already transformed our understanding of how people gamble, providing richer, more reliable insight than ever before.
"We are pleased to award this new contract to NatCen and the University of Glasgow, whose expertise has been central to the GSGB's success so far.
"Over the next four years we'll continue to strengthen the survey and expand what it can tell us - whether that's through deeper analysis or exploring opportunities for longitudinal research. This work is fundamental to ensuring our regulation is rooted in the best possible evidence."
The next set of annual industry statistics will be published in Autumn 2026, which will cover the period from April 2025 and March 2026
