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Georgia excludes 1.5M citizens from gambling activity
By the end of 2025, Georgia updated its national gambling exclusion registry, which formally banned 1,577,247 citizens from gambling activities.
The number represents more than half of the country’s population and exceeds the political target of 1.5 million exclusions set by former Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili.
The exclusions are part of the amendments to the Georgian Law on the Organisation of Lotteries, Gambling and Games of Chance. The measures will be supervised by Georgia’s Revenue Service, which also manages gambling license surveillance and the centralized exclusion system.
Public-sector employees, citizens with criminal records, and voluntarily self-excluded individuals will be automatically banned from gambling.
Another big change is the decision to raise the legal gambling age to 25, which is the highest threshold in Eastern Europe. To ensure compliance, Georgia also introduced mandatory biometric identification and centralized age verification for gambling venues.
A new tax framework was also introduced in late 2025 in Georgia, as licensed operators must pay a 15% levy on gross gaming revenue, while citizen winnings are taxed at 5%.
Although the country saw Irakli Kobakhidze replace Irakli Garibashvili as prime minister in 2025, the ruling government continues to treat gambling regulation as a matter of public welfare.
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