iGaming Business – The Gaming Technologies Association has revealed that Japan is well ahead of any other country in the world in terms of the number of legal gaming machines installed throughout the nation.
The association’s ‘The World Count of Gaming Machines 2013’ report found that 4,592,036 legal gambling machines are installed throughout Japan.
The second-placed US was some way off with 889,070 machines, while Italy was third in the list with 412,252.
Spain rose to fifth in the worldwide rankings while Australia, Germany and the UK were also included in the top 10.
Japan also led the way in terms of individual jurisdictions, while the US featured twice with the states of Nevada and Oklahoma being ranked fifth and 10th, respectively. California dropped out of the top 10 after finishing 10th last year.
New South Wales in Australia was the only other state or province to feature in the top 10 jurisdictions with all of the other inclusions being countries.
Eastern Asia was the geographical region with the most gaming machines installed, eclipsing Europe and Northern America in second and third place respectively. Central Asia had the least machines installed.
