The number of casino exclusion applications in Macau rose 67.9 percent year-on-year in 2025, show data from the city’s regulator, the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau, also known as DICJ.
Exclusion applications – including self-generated applications and third-party applications – amounted to 952 instances in the year to December 31, compared to 567 in 2024.
The figures exclude court-mandated exclusions from casinos.
Most cases in 2025 were self-exclusion applications, accounting for 828 instances, and up 74.3 percent year-on-year from 2024’s tally of 475.
Third-party exclusion applications – which can be at the request of a spouse or relative under Macau rules, but must be confirmed by the targeted individuals – amounted in 2025 to 124 cases. That was up 34.8 percent on 2024’s 92 cases.
The data do not specify the split between Macau ID holders and others, in terms of exclusions from the city’s casinos.
In the years 2020, 2021 and 2022 – when visitors from outside the city were for long periods barred from entering Macau due to rules related to the Covid-19 pandemic – the annual exclusion-application tallies recorded by DICJ were respectively 283, 426 and 345. In 2023, the figure stood at 494.
Since Law No. 10/2012 – “Regulating the Conditions of Entering, Working and Gaming at Casinos” came into effect in November 2012, there has been a total of 5,789 cases of exclusion application, as per DICJ data.
Under the law, the director of the gaming bureau may, following an exclusion request, prohibit a person “from entering all or some of the casinos” for a maximum period of two years in a single instance.
Amendments to Law No. 10/2012 that went into effect in December 2019 prohibit off-duty casino staff from gambling in the city’s casinos.
