Report
Young People and Gambling 2025: Official statistics
Gambling Commission report produced by Ipsos on young people and their gambling behaviour, attitudes and awareness in 2025.
Contents
- Executive summary
- Wider experience of gambling
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- Summary
- Wider experience and active involvement in gambling
- Experience of different categories of gambling activities
- Experience of different types of gambling activities
- Who young people were with when they gambled
- Being stopped from gambling for being too young
- Gambling in the context of what young people do in their spare time
- Gambling in the context of other risk taking behaviours
- Active involvement in gambling and experience of problem gambling
- Trends in gambling behaviours: 2022 to 2025
- Young people’s exposure to gambling
- The impact of gambling on young people
- Gambling activities and gaming
- Perspectives on gambling: Awareness, attitudes and behaviours
- Appendices
Gambling activities and gaming
Contents
- Summary From the Young People and Gambling survey 2025 this section of the report details a summary of the active involvement in and experience with games and gaming machines.
- Overall experience of playing games and gaming machines From the Young People and Gambling survey 2025 this section of the report details young people’s overall experience of playing games and gaming machines.
- Types of gaming machine played From the Young People and Gambling survey 2025 this section of the report details the types of gaming machines played.
- Playing arcade machines in adults-only areas From the Young People and Gambling survey 2025 this section of the report details young people's play of arcade machines in an adults-only area.
- Who young people were with in an adult-only area From the Young People and Gambling survey 2025 this section of the report details who young people were with in an adult-only area.
- Online gambling From the Young People and Gambling survey 2025 this section of the report details the online gambling carried out by young people.
- National Lottery play From the Young People and Gambling survey 2025 this section of the report details the National Lottery play carried out by young people.
- Gaming From the Young People and Gambling survey 2025 this section of the report details the gaming carried out by young people.
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Last updated: 13 November 2025
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