Gambling in France in 2024

In 2024, gross gaming revenue - the difference between the amount staked by players and the sums paid out in winnings - reached almost €14 billion in France, up 4.7% on 2023. This growth followed an already significant increase of 3.5% the previous year.

All gambling segments were up in 2024, with the exception of online poker and horse betting in retail outlets. Sports betting saw a particularly significant surge, with GGR up 14.8%, while lottery games were up 5.1% year-on-year.

More than half of 18-75-year-olds (51.6%) said they had gambled at least once in 2023, up 4.6 points on 2019. Draw-based games (34.2%) and scratchcard games (30.9%) remained the most popular (played at least once a year by almost one adult in three). Average annual expenditure per adult was €258, compared to €249 in 2023 (+4%).

The proportion of problem gamblers (representing 4.9% of gamblers, or 2.5% of the population aged 18-75) has remained stable since 2019. As for 17-year-olds, in 2022, 27.5% of them declared that they had taken part in gambling in the course of the year, down from 38.8% in 2017.

After a decline in 2023, the number of online gamblers rose again (+7.7%), representing almost 3.9 million people in 2024. At the same time, the number of active player accounts rose by 11.8%.