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
Experience of ever seeing a family member gambling
Around 3 in 10 (29 percent) young people have seen a family member they live with gamble. As shown in Figure 5.1, 57 percent who have not and a further 14 percent who did not know.
Analysis by sub-group highlights variations in who is more likely to report seeing a family member gamble. For example, boys were more likely than girls to have seen their family members gamble (31 percent, compared with 27 percent). Young people from white ethnic groups (33 percent) were more likely than young people from ethnic minority backgrounds (19 percent) to have seen a family member gamble. Young people who consider themselves to be risk-takers (38 percent) were also more likely to have seen a family member gamble, compared with those who did not consider themselves risk-takers (24 percent).
Figure 5.1: Experience of ever seeing family members gambling
Figure 5.1 information
GC_FAMGAM. Have you ever seen any of the family members that you live with gambling? When we talk about gambling, we mean any activity which involves risking money (or something of value) in a game or a bet in the hope of winning money or a prize.
Base: All participants answering 2025 (3,484).
| Experience of family member gambling | 2025 (percentage) |
|---|---|
| Yes | 29% |
| No | 57% |
| Do not know | 14% |
The order of this section of the questionnaire was changed in 2025, so while trend data indicates that the proportion of young people who have seen family members gambling has increased since 2024 (26 percent in 2024, compared with 29 percent in 2025), the data is not directly comparable.
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Last updated: 13 November 2025
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