{"id":8814,"date":"2023-11-30T09:53:07","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T09:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bettingwebsites.org.uk\/?page_id=8814"},"modified":"2023-12-14T13:07:48","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T13:07:48","slug":"lottery","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bettingwebsites.org.uk\/articles\/industry-statistics\/lottery\/","title":{"rendered":"Lottery Statistics & Trends: UK Lottery Industry Data"},"content":{"rendered":"
The UKGC keep the data on the National Lottery and all other lotteries in the UK separate, which at first may seem like an odd thing to do, but remember, the National Lottery is run on behalf of the government, while all other smaller lotteries are run by independent companies or charities.<\/p>\n
This actually gives us some useful insight into how lottery players think and behave between the two categories, because while the National Lottery is known by pretty much everybody in the country, the rest of the lotteries are not.<\/p>\n
Or at least they haven’t been in the past.<\/p>\n
There are more than 200 smaller lotteries running in the UK, all raising money for good causes as well as paying out very welcome cash prizes to the winners who buy the lucky tickets or scratch cards.<\/p>\n
The lottery landscape is changing too, with 3rd<\/sup> party management companies taking more of the load from the organisations the lotteries are running on behalf of, and with players seemingly more engaged with these smaller competitions than ever.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n If we look at the GGY of the National lottery compared with the GGY of all other UK lotteries, one thing is immediately apparent: one is doing increasingly well, and the other, isn’t.<\/p>\n There is an uninterrupted year on year average increase of around 10% with other lotteries, while the GGY of the National Lottery has barely increased at all in that same period of time.<\/p>\n So in total, other lotteries have increased their GGY by 149.81% (\u00a3273 million in 2013 to \u00a3682 million in 2023), and the National Lottery has grown just 6.40% (\u00a33.280 billion in 2013 to \u00a33.490 billion in 2023).<\/p>\n You can also see that the National Lottery\u2019s GGY has been much more up and down than the other lotteries, which have gone up in a straight line.<\/p>\n To me, it seems that not only have smaller, less mainstream lotteries become more popular, but when you understand how the National Lottery works, it seems that they have been messing around with their distribution a lot more too.<\/p>\nGross Gambling Yield (GGY) and Revenues of Lotteries in the UK<\/h2>\n