Report
Young People and Gambling 2024: Official statistics
Gambling Commission report produced by Ipsos on young people and their gambling behaviour, attitudes and awareness in 2024.
Contents
- Executive summary
- Young people’s active involvement in gambling
- The impacts of gambling on young people
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- Summary
- The impact of gambling on relationships
- Young people’s feelings when gambling
- The impact of gambling on young people’s engagement with school and homework
- The impact of gambling on young people’s sleep
- The impact of gambling on spending
- Experience of ever seeing a family member gambling
- The impact of family members’ gambling on young people
- Wider experience of gambling
- Games and gaming machines
- Online gambling
- Lotteries and lottery style games
- Attitudes towards gambling and reasons for gambling
- Recall of gambling adverts and promotion
- Appendices
- List of gambling activities and definitions
Young people’s active involvement in online gambling
Young people were asked if they had spent their own money on different types of online gambling in the last 12 months. A total of 2 percent noted having spent their own money placing a bet on a betting website or app, whilst 1 percent had each placed a bet on eSports, played casino games online or played bingo online.
There were some differences by gender, with boys more likely than girls to spend their own money on betting on eSports and to bet on a website or an app (2 percent compared to less than 1 percent for both) or to bet on casino games online (1 percent of boys compared to less than 1 percent of girls).
The figures for young people’s active involvement in placing a bet on eSports, betting on a website or apps and playing casino games online are in line with the levels seen in 2022 and 2023.
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Overall experience of online gambling
Last updated: 7 November 2024
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