The problem gambling rate dipped slightly year-on-year in the third edition of the Gambling Survey for Great Britain (GSGB), released today (16 July) by the Gambling Commission.
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Covering the entirety of 2025, many of the survey’s headline figures have stayed relatively stable.
But there is a notable change in the percentage of participants with a Problem Gambling Severity Index (PGSI) score of eight and over – it was 2.7% in last year’s survey, but now sits at 2.4%.
The commission has described this as stable over the past three years, and considering the first survey published in 2024 had the figure at 2.5%, this is broadly true.
