The Spillemyndigheden, the Danish Gambling Authority, has posted a report showing a 1.4% year-on-year growth in total gambling spend for March 2025, and once again, the online gaming sector is the strongest performer.
According to the report by the Spillemyndigheden, online casino revenue continued with its upward trajectory by seeing an increase of 6.4% when compared to March 2024.
Opposite to this, land-based casino gaming, slot machines and betting noticed a slight decline when compared to 2024, which is not surprising considering the market’s shift toward online casino channels.
Moreover, for the first time, the March report included land-based bingo gaming as an independent category, a development that is a result of the regulatory changes that the country implemented on the 1st of January, and which allow licensed Danish operators to offer bingo.
Numbers from charitable bingo operations, however, will remain classified independently under the lottery vertical.
Additionally, the Spillemyndigheden has also recently issued its annual The Gambling Market in Numbers Report 2024, which provides a detailed overview across the regulated gambling industry in Denmark. The report showed that the total gambling spend in Denmark for 2024 amounted to DKK 11 billion ($1.6 billion), which is a 5.3% increase when compared to 2023.
From here, the online gambling vertical is responsible for a major share of the market, reaching 91.5% in 2024 through the legal gambling activity conducted via legal operators, which is higher than the 90.8% in 2023, figures that place Denmark fifth in the regulated online gambling market share.
At the beginning of 2025, Denmark introduced new licensing requirements for software developers, setting the date for mandatory compliance until July 2025. Lastly, the 2024 gross gaming revenue reached DKK 7.27 billion, with online gambling pitching in for almost half the figure.
