B
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48%
48% -- monthly gambling participation rate for UK adults (2024)
48% of UK adults gamble every month.
- Decreases to 27% when lotteries are excluded from analysis
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Value
48%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2024
Entity
Sample Size
9,804
Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
60
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
UK Gambling Commission
Primary
Tier B
https://www.bps.org.uk/research-digest/gambling-harms-may-be-far-more-prevalent-we-thought ↗
Source Article
Gambling harms may be far more prevalent than we thought | BPS
Gambling is big business. According to the Gambling Commission, the value of the gambling market in the UK is a hefty £15.1 billion, with 48% of adults gambling every month. Some of this will be quite harmless, such as buying the odd lottery ticket. Yet problem gambling is a growing issue — and, acc…
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UK Gambling Commission
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Methodology
Gambling Commission survey; participants took part by post or online rather than phone
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Industrymarketing
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UK adults: 48% monthly gambling participation rate. Source: UK Gambling Commission (2024). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/uk-adults-gambling-monthly-48pct
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