Spain sees double digit rise in online gambling self-exclusions
18th January 2021
| By Richard Mulligan
Spain’s national self-exclusion scheme for online gambling saw a 12% increase in registrations during 2020 to 56,329.
Some 56,329 people have now registered with Registro General de Interdicciones de Acceso al Juego (RGIAJ), which was set up by the country’s gambling regulator Dirección General de Ordenación del Juego (DGOJ) in 2015. That figure is up by 12.02% – 6,042 registrations – compared to last year.
Andalusia, which is Spain’s most populous region, accounts for 24.5% of self-exclusions, growing by 7.1% new registrations in 2020 to 13,811. The area around capital city Madrid was second at 17.0%, growing by 13.1% to 9,591.
In Summary:
The national register accounted for 6,000 more people voluntarily excluding themselves from online gambling than in 2019
RGIAJ does not account for numbers from the CCAA as both registers do not have an interconnection
Region-wise, Andalusia, followed by the area around Madrid and the Balearic Islands set the top 3 in terms of number of exclusions
Spain’s gambling regulator reported
56,329 people registered for the country’s self-exclusion scheme in 2020,
6,042 more compared to the people who joined in
2019. The self-exclusion register,
Registro General de Interdicciones de Acceso al Juego (RGIAJ) set up in 2015 by Spain’s gambling regulatory body
Dirección General de Ordenación del Juego (DGOJ) is gaining popularity after a