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Crash games in Morocco and Africa: the 2026 figures

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In Morocco, online gambling escapes all local regulation: no online operator is licensed there, and a major share of stakes flows offshore. In the six African countries surveyed by GeoPoll in 2026, 95% of bettors bet from their phone. Here are the figures of a market nobody documents in French — all sourced, all verifiable.

  • The Moroccan market estimated between $237 million and $1.14 billion depending on scope — we publish both figures, with their sources.
  • ~40% of Moroccan stakes reportedly escape regulated operators, according to the MDJS itself.
  • The continent in 2025: $23 billion in online gross revenue, 77% of it outside licensed sites.

Published

Key figures

> $121 billion — global online gambling revenue in 2025 according to Statista Market Insights, projected above $123 billion by end of 2026: the global scale marker, before the African figures.⁠[1]
Source: Statista Market Insights, via GamblingInsider, 2026.

$1.14 billion — the projection of the Moroccan gambling market in 2025 according to CasinoRank (broad scope, offshore included), against $237 million according to 6Wresearch (narrow scope). Two scopes, two figures: we publish both.⁠[2]⁠[3]
Sources: CasinoRank Research 2026 (Francophone Africa iGaming Market Overview); 6Wresearch, June 2026.

2.78 billion MAD — the MDJS gross gaming revenue projected for 2025, against 1.48 billion in 2023 and 1.7 billion in 2024.⁠[4]
Source: MDJS, via the Moroccan press (Le Desk).

~40% — the share of stakes captured by unregulated operators, according to the MDJS's own estimate.⁠[4]
Source: MDJS.

Morocco in figures: 40% of stakes sit outside regulated operators, and MDJS gross gaming revenue heads toward a projected 2.78 billion MAD in 2025.
Morocco in figures: the offshore share of stakes and the MDJS gross-revenue trajectory. Sources: MDJS, via Le Desk (2023–2025).

≈ 3.5 billion MAD/year — Moroccans' offshore betting, "the only figure available" according to industry observers.⁠[5]
Source: iGaming Business, September 2026.

0.3% — the share of online gambling revenue flowing through regulated operators in North Africa in 2025: the lowest on the continent (West Africa: 31%, Southern Africa: 28%).⁠[6]
Source: Gaming Compliance International, "Winning Ground" report, July 2026.

30% — the withholding tax introduced by the 2025 finance law on winnings from offshore platforms — a first step toward formal regulation of online gambling in Morocco.⁠[2]
Source: CasinoRank Research 2026.

$23 billion — online gambling GGR in Africa in 2025, 77% of it outside licensed sites. The regulated segment still grows: $4.4B (2024) → $5.2B (2025), and 215 million Africans interacted with online gambling in 2025.⁠[7]⁠[6] The regulation gap is also a data gap: of the 41 Sub-Saharan African countries where gambling is regulated, only 2 continuously publish their regulator's annual reports — and 87.8% publish none (Sichali et al., 2023).⁠[8]
Source: GCI 2025 Africa Market Report and "Winning Ground" report (July 2026), via African iGaming Alliance.

Online gross gaming revenue in 2025 by country: South Africa leads with $3.3 billion, ahead of Nigeria and Ghana.
Gross online gaming revenue by country (2025). Source: H2 Gambling Capital, 2025.
Interactive version of the chart above: gross online gaming revenue by country, 2025. Source: H2 Gambling Capital, 2025.

$3.08 billion — the African sports-betting market at end of 2025 according to Statista, expected at $3.61B in 2029 (27.5 million users); South Africa alone weighs $768.6M in 2025.⁠[9]
Source: Statista, Market Outlook December 2025, via Global Gambling News.

95% — bettors who bet via their smartphone in the six African countries surveyed by GeoPoll (Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda); Morocco is not part of this survey.⁠[10]
Source: GeoPoll, "Betting in Africa 2026" (2,866 bettors surveyed, 24 June – 16 July 2026), via FocusGN.

+53.93% — the annual growth of monthly Aviator players in Africa; the continent supplies 19.81% of the game's new players worldwide.⁠[11]
Source: Spribe, via SiGMA.

19% — South African players who play crash games: the country's 2nd most-played product, after football betting (61%).⁠[12]
Source: TechFinancials, April 2026.

58.8 million — mobile subscriptions in Morocco (159.5% penetration) at mid-2025; median age: 30.8 years — a young, ultra-connected market.⁠[13]⁠[14]
Sources: DEPF (Directorate of Studies and Financial Forecasts), via MAP; PopulationPyramid.net (World Bank data).

Our analysis

Everything above gathers the figures published by the cited sources. What follows is our analysis, and it mixes three things that we distinguish at every step: the sources' findings, credited to them and cited; our calculations on their published figures, flagged as ours, with their margins; and our interpretations, labelled as such.

Scope uncertainty is itself a figure. $1.14 billion against $237 million for the same Moroccan market in 2025⁠[2]⁠[3]: the ratio is 4.8 (1,140 ÷ 237, our calculation). Our reading: the gap does not primarily measure a disagreement about amounts; it measures the share of the market that no official scope captures — the share that flows offshore, included in the broad scope and absent from the narrow one.

The MDJS trajectory reads in rates. Gross gaming revenue rises from 1.48 billion MAD in 2023 to 1.7 billion in 2024, then to a projected 2.78 billion in 2025⁠[4]: that is +14.9% then +63.5% (our calculations). The second year's growth is worth about 4.3 times the first's, and the compound pace over the two years comes out at +37.0% per year. We present these rates as arithmetic on the published figures: the 2025 figure is a projection, and an acceleration computed on a projection does not carry the same status as one observed in closed results.

The North African gap measures in ratios. The shares of online revenue flowing through regulated operators — 0.3% in North Africa, 31% in West Africa, 28% in Southern Africa⁠[6] — give, as ratios, about 103 times and 93 times the North African share (our calculations). Our reading: at this level, the gap no longer describes a regulation lag but a near-complete absence of a regulated channel. The comparison with the ≈ 40% of Moroccan stakes the MDJS attributes to unregulated operators⁠[4] comes with its limit, stated in this very sentence: the two figures cover neither the same perimeter (Morocco alone, against North Africa) nor the same quantity (stakes, against revenue).

A quarter of African sports betting sits in a single country. Of the $3.08 billion African sports-betting market at end-2025, South Africa weighs $768.6 million⁠[9], i.e. 24.9% (our calculation); the projection to $3.61 billion in 2029⁠[9] represents +17.2% over four years (our calculation) — a compound pace of about +4.0% per year, matching the 4% compound annual growth rate Statista itself announced for the period.

The data gap can be counted, too. Of the 41 Sub-Saharan African countries where gambling is regulated, the study counts 36 countries (87.8%) that publish no annual report from their regulator, 2 that publish continuously, and 3 that have published only an incomplete series⁠[8]. Our check is a single addition: 36 + 3 + 2 = 41 — the study's three categories exhaust its perimeter, with no remainder.

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References

  1. Statista Market Insights, global online gambling revenue, reported by GamblingInsider, "Gambling statistics", 2026, https://gamblinginsider.com/in-depth/114456/gambling-statistics ↑
  2. CasinoRank Research, "Francophone Africa iGaming Market Overview", 2026, via IssueWire, 5 June 2026, https://www.issuewire.com/casinorank-research-2026-francophone-africa-igaming-market-overview-1867162687739268 ↑
  3. 6Wresearch, "Morocco Gambling Market", data validated in June 2026, https://www.6wresearch.com/industry-report/morocco-gambling-market-2020-2026 ↑
  4. MDJS, figures reported by Le Desk and the Moroccan press, https://www.archynewsy.com/illegal-betting-mdjs-order-faces-telecom-operator-resistance/ ↑
  5. iGaming Business, "North Africa online betting licensing gap", 11 September 2026, https://igamingbusiness.com/legal-compliance/north-africa-online-betting-licensing-gap/ — the article presents these ≈ 3.5 billion MAD of offshore betting as the only figure available for the unregulated Moroccan market. ↑
  6. Gaming Compliance International, "Winning Ground" report, July 2026 — SiGMA News report, https://sigma.world/news/africa-online-gambling-market-gci-report-ismail-vali/ ↑
  7. Gaming Compliance International, "Winning Ground: The First Online Gambling Report Spanning Every African Nation", PR Newswire, 20 July 2026, https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/winning-ground-the-first-online-gambling-report-spanning-every-african-nation-839933113.html ↑
  8. Sichali, J.M. et al., "Regulation of gambling in Sub-Saharan Africa: findings from a comparative policy analysis", Public Health 214:140–145, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2022.07.018 ↑
  9. Statista, Market Outlook, December 2025, via Global Gambling News, 22 December 2025, https://globalgamblingnews.com/africas-sports-betting-market-poised-for-3bn-growth/ ↑
  10. GeoPoll, 2026 report on betting in Africa, via FocusGN, 23 July 2026, https://focusgn.com/africa/africas-betting-markets-show-sharp-differences-across-countries-geopoll-finds ↑
  11. Spribe, via SiGMA News, "Aviator crash game shooting for the stars in Africa", https://sigma.world/news/aviator-crash-game-shooting-for-the-stars-in-africa/ ↑
  12. TechFinancials, "Crash games powering South African online casino growth", 17 April 2026, https://techfinancials.co.za/2026/04/17/crash-games-powering-south-african-online-casino-growth/ ↑
  13. DEPF (Directorate of Studies and Financial Forecasts), via the MAP agency, reported by Barlamane, 30 August 2025, https://www.maghress.com/fr/barlamanefr/457692 ↑
  14. PopulationPyramid.net, Morocco 2025 (World Bank data), https://www.populationpyramid.net/morocco/2025/ ↑

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