The organisation behind the UK’s national self-exclusion service for online gambling has identified under-25s as the demographic most at-risk of developing problem gambling harms.
According to GAMSTOP’s statistics, a 31% rise has been noticed year-on-year for under-25s registering with the service during the latter half of 2024.
These figures signal that consumers aged between 16 and 24 now make up almost a quarter of new GAMSTOP registrants, while marking asharper rise than the 12% increase witnessed in the first half of 2024.
Fiona Palmer, CEO of GAMSTOP, commented: “The increase in the number of under-25s registering for GAMSTOP has become an accelerating trend, with a 31% year-on-year increase in the second half of 2024, following a 12% increase in the first half of the year.”
During the second half of 2024, GAMSTOP saw a 14% i..