- The graph shows online gross gambling yield (GGY) as a percentage of global GGY between 2007 and 2025, with 2022 being an estimate and 2023-2025 being forecasts
- It is evident that during the Covid-19 pandemic the share of online GGY grew from 13% in 2019, to 19% in 2020, which is no surprise given that land-based venues were closed in most jurisdictions during the pandemic (2020, 2021). But the growth is set to continue.
- This graph shows the top five betting markets by GGY for 2021 in billions of US dollars
- Japan continued to lead the market, with US way back in second place. As US jurisdictions continue to legalise sports betting,it is projected that their share of global betting GGY will grow, but it will be hard to overshadown Japan’s racing industry.
- The top 5 betting markets took up 48% of entire global GGY for 2021.
- The graph shows global lottery GGY distribution in 2021, in percentages
- Asia is the market with the largest share of lottery GGY in 2021 ($45.5bn), closely followed by Europe ($43.4bn)
- Oceania, South/Central America and Africa took only a 7% share of total lottery GGY in 2021, mainly due to the size of those markets, population and wealth of players.
- Here, we assess the market shares of gambling sectors worldwide for 2021 in percentages
- Lottery took the largest GGY of all gambling products, while casinos sit in second place with a share of 22% (before Covid-19, in 2019, casinos took the most GGY – 29.1%)
- The main reson is the Covid-19 pandemic, when most land-based gambling venues were closed (2020, 2021), but lottery outlets were allowed to operate in most countries.
- Our final graph shows the GGY of the global casino market between 2018 and 2025; years between 2022 and 2025 are forecasts, with its data being in billions of US dollars.
- Covid-19 is the reason for the drop in revenues in 2020 (a fall of 34% YoY), recovery in 2021 (+18% YoY), and all subsequent years.
- Covid-19 whiped out $57bn from casinos in 2021.
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