There are 91 countries that have a lottery.
Given there are only 195 countries in the world, that means 46.67% of the world’s countries have lottery games.
Which Countries Have a Lottery?
These are the countries with a lottery:-
Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Channel Islands, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Isle of Man, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macau, Malaysia, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, North Macedonia, Norway, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, South Sudan, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, UAE, Uganda, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela and Vietnam.
That’s a grand total of 91 countries that have the lottery.
OK, technically some are more territories rather than countries, but it’s still an impressive list don’t you think?
Which Countries Play the Lottery?
This is a similar but slightly different question.
Obviously all the countries which have a lottery do play. But just because a country doesn’t have their own lottery does NOT mean they don’t play at all.
Given you can play a lot of other countries lottery games online (unofficially generally through ticket buying services or online syndicates) it does mean some of those countries without their own national lottery games will still have lottery players. So they can be included in the list of countries that do play the lottery.
Identifying who they all are though would require access to the data of every company that provides online access to playing lottery games.
Is America the Only Country With Lottery?
America is not the only country with lottery. Not by a very long way. America has a lot of lottery games, and has a different lottery company for nearly every state in the US. But there are 90 other countries that have lottery games too.
Does Europe Have the Lottery?
Europe does have the lottery. In fact, there are 39 countries/territories in Europe that have the lottery.
Not only that, Europe also has three games that are shared between multiple countries (EuroMillions, Eurojackpot and Viking Lotto).
You listed the countries that have a lottery, but you did not give the actual number of countries that have a lottery?
I did – very first sentence. 🙂
But just added it again under the country list too to make it clearer.