GPWA Times Magazine - Issue 38 - July 2017

by the numbers Percent rise in gambling revenue in Italy for 2016 , according to the internal revenue service Average number of accounts held by online gamblers , according to the U.K. Gambling Commission South Africa’s gain in gross gambling revenue in 2015 Number of U.S. states considering legislation to enable online gambling , according to GamingCompliance Percentage of U.K. women who read gambling sites’ terms and conditions , compared to 27%of men Number of people in Sweden who play at an online casino every month Percentage decline of poker games in the Italian online andmobile market in 2016 Projected peak earnings for online casinos in Pennsylvania , according to PlayPennsylvania Increase in numberof websiteshacked in 2016 compared to 2015, as reported by Google Revenue generated by SouthKorea’s gambling industry in 2016 Percentage of people between the age of 17-35 inKenya who have tried gambling or betting Percentage of revenues coming in from mobile gaming inEurope , according to SkyBet Swedish krona per year spent byhouseholdsongambling 8 w w w . g p w a t i m e s . o r g Big Ben illustration by RedlineVector/Shutterstock; Florence photo by distinct vision/Shutterstock; Poker cards illustration by MSSA/Shutterstock; Swedish flags image by MZinchenko/Shutterstock