KeyToCasino Collated Information on Gambling Laws Around the World

KeyToCasino research team has collected information on gambling laws for 225 countries and territories of the world and conveniently organized it as a table and as a map. The laws for land-based casinos and for online gambling are presented separately. 

For the land-based casinos, the information is color-coded as follows: red for banned, orange for legal for foreign travelers only, yellow for legal in limited localities, and green for legal all over the country.  

Online gambling laws are split into two categories: laws for the operators and laws for the players. Operators are marked as

- Red if they are banned in the given country,

- Orange if local casinos are banned and foreign ones are allowed,  

- Yellow if license is required for all online casinos,

- Light green if license is required for local casinos only, and

- Green if online gambling is not prohibited at all. 

For the players, red color means criminal penalty for online gambling, yellow means administrative penalty, and green means no penalty at all.

All the sources and links to the original laws as well as their English translations are available in the table, the Sources column. The number in the Score column means how the country stands in terms of gambling availability. The closer this score is to the 1 000, the better this country is for the online gambling.

As you switch to the Map View, you can see the world map color-coded respectively for land-based casino law, online casino law for operators or for players, access to casino websites and to casino-related transactions. The drop-down menu on the top right will allow you to switch between the map views.

Statistics tab will show you pie charts with percent for each category mentioned above by number of countries or by population.