Where iGaming is prohibited, and who still serves it.

A market with no licensed industry still has data. Brands publish which countries they accept and exclude, offers are marked for specific markets, and prohibitions are enforced in different ways. CasinoRank covers prohibited markets with the same evidence standards as licensed ones, for compliance teams, payment providers and platforms that need to know where exposure sits.

No licensed industry
23
Prohibited in every form
Online prohibited
32
With lotteries, state betting or casinos
Brands accepting players
24.2%
Average across no-market countries
Offers marked available
633
Across all 55 markets

How a restricted market is covered

  1. 01Legal status by productOnline casino, sports betting, poker, lottery and land-based casino, each with its state and source. 5 products per market.
  2. 02Enforcement and controlsPlayer liability, site blocking, payment blocking and advertising rules, kept separate from the law itself.
  3. 03Offshore exposureWhich brands say they accept or exclude players from the market, which list it as a focus market, and which offers are marked as available there.
  4. 04Change signalsDraft laws, new authorities, blocking orders and shifts in brand access terms open a research job the same day.

Prohibited, no market

23 markets. Knowledge base, as of 2026-10-15

Prohibited in every form: no licensing, no regulator, no lottery.

MarketRegionAccept playersExcludeFocus marketOffers
QAQatar Asia 400 37 10
BNBrunei Asia 384 4 0
BHBahrain Asia 400 31 8
TOTonga Oceania 390 2 0
KWKuwait Asia 403 40 10
TMTurkmenistan Asia 400 2 2
MHMarshall Islands Oceania 409 2 0
MRMauritania Africa 413 3 2
OMOman Asia 418 27 5
IDIndonesia Asia 425 22 20
MNMongolia Asia 426 2 1
SASaudi Arabia Asia 459 39 8
KYCayman Islands Americas 491 2 1
CUCuba Americas 534 2 1
LYLibya Africa 569 3 0
SOSomalia Africa 566 11 2
SDSudan Africa 575 2 0
YEYemen Asia 632 4 2
AFAfghanistan Asia 801 3 0
IRIran Asia 833 3 0
ASAmerican Samoa Oceania 479 2 0
GUGuam Oceania 479 2 0
VAVatican City Europe 416 2 0

Online prohibited

32 markets. Knowledge base, as of 2026-10-15

Online play is prohibited; lotteries, state betting or land-based casinos exist.

MarketRegionStill legalAccept playersExcludeFocus marketOffers
CLChile Americas Sports betting (state monopoly), Lottery (state monopoly), Land-based casino (licensed) 391 65 94
INIndia Asia Lottery (set by states or provinces), Land-based casino (set by states or provinces) 386 84 76
BRBrazil Americas Lottery (state monopoly) 397 97 144
JPJapan Asia Sports betting (state monopoly), Lottery (state monopoly), Land-based casino (licensing opening) 390 64 15
LILiechtenstein Europe Lottery (licensed), Land-based casino (licensed) 382 4 1
MOMacao Asia Sports betting (licensed), Lottery (licensed), Land-based casino (licensed) 403 2 1
BTBhutan Asia Lottery (state monopoly) 400 3 0
MYMalaysia Asia Lottery (licensed), Land-based casino (licensed) 416 31 22
NPNepal Asia Land-based casino (licensed) 406 11 3
KRSouth Korea Asia Sports betting (state monopoly), Lottery (state monopoly), Land-based casino (licensed) 419 33 26
TJTajikistan Asia Lottery (state monopoly) 407 6 1
BDBangladesh Asia None 420 53 53
PSPalestinian Territories Asia None 410 2 1
THThailand Asia Lottery (state monopoly) 406 34 40
EGEgypt Africa Lottery (state monopoly), Land-based casino (licensed) 434 34 22
PWPalau Oceania None 418 2 0
BOBolivia Americas Lottery (state monopoly), Land-based casino (licensed) 427 4 3
VNVietnam Asia Lottery (state monopoly), Land-based casino (licensed) 431 29 13
JOJordan Asia Lottery (state monopoly) 446 7 3
LALaos Asia Lottery (state monopoly), Land-based casino (licensed) 459 4 1
TWTaiwan Asia Sports betting (state monopoly), Lottery (state monopoly) 456 2 2
CNChina mainland Asia Sports betting (state monopoly), Lottery (state monopoly) 592 11 6
KHCambodia Asia Lottery (licensed), Land-based casino (licensed) 487 9 1
DZAlgeria Africa Sports betting (state monopoly), Lottery (state monopoly) 506 7 2
ETEthiopia Africa Lottery (state monopoly) 542 5 3
MMMyanmar (Burma) Asia Lottery (state monopoly) 573 6 2
PKPakistan Asia None 593 25 20
SYSyria Asia None 620 2 2
IQIraq Asia None 771 5 4
XKKosovo Europe Lottery (state monopoly) 366 2 0
KPNorth Korea Asia Land-based casino (licensed) 660 2 0
TLTimor-Leste Asia None 389 3 0
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