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Industry Statistics 2025

Our Data Analytics Manager Jason Davies introduces the latest Industry Statistics for financial year April 2024 to March 2025.

Posted 25 November 2025 by Jason Davies

Today we have published the latest annual industry statistics, which report on the size and shape of the customer-facing gambling industry in Great Britain.

Highlights from industry statistics

Gross Gambling Yield (GGY) for the industry was £16.8 billion in the year to March 2025, which represents an increase of 7.3 percent since last year. This rise has largely been driven by GGY generated from online gambling which has gone up by more than £900 million to an annual figure of £7.8 billion.

In GGY terms, the Remote Casino, Betting and Bingo (RCBB) sector makes up 46 percent of the market in Great Britain. The non-remote (land-based) sector has 29 percent of the market share at £4.8 billion. Licensed lotteries (including the National Lottery and society lotteries) comprise 25 percent of industry GGY at £4.2 billion.

New quarterly publication

Alongside the annual statistics, we have also published the first in a new series of quarterly statistics, which cover the period April to June 2025.

We are now able to publish data on a quarterly basis following changes that we made in July 2024 to the way licensed gambling operators submit their regulatory returns.

The new quarterly statistics include core data from the customer-facing sectors of the gambling market, such as GGY and premises numbers across the different sectors. It does not include lotteries data or some of the additional detail found in the annual publication, which remains the more comprehensive report. It does, however, provide a more current and timelier snapshot of industry statistics and we will continue to publish quarterly reports in the lead-up to the next annual release in autumn 2026. In this first report, we have included data from the three previous quarters (July 2024 to March 2025) to highlight any seasonal trends and provide rolling 12-month totals and averages.

The harmonisation of reporting requirements for all operators into quarterly submissions within the same 28-day window each quarter has revealed some interesting new insights such as the seasonal variations in family entertainment centres, typically at their busiest in the summer months.

There’s lots more to dive into in both the annual and the new quarterly statistics. As always, we are keen to hear your thoughts. How do you use the statistics? What have you noticed?

Let us hear your thoughts in this Industry Statistics survey (opens in new tab).

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