Taking fourth place in the rankings is Emilia Romagna with around €2.4bn (about €500m in May), followed by the Veneto and Piedmont regions with €2.1bn and €2bn respectively (takings in May were €419m and €404m respectively).

The region in which people play the least is the Valle d’Aosta, with takings of €61m (€12m in May), behind Molise with €169m (€35m in May) and Basilicata with €221m (takings in May were €44m).

Over the first five months of the year every Italian spent an average of €497 on gaming, or €3.3 per day. (The per-capita figure is based on the entire population of both adults and children.)

Splurging the most on gaming are the inhabitants of the Lazio region with an average expenditure of €610 each, or more than €4 a day. Not far behind are the inhabitants of the Abruzzo region at €588, and also on the podium with an average expenditure per capita of €581 are the people of Lombardy. The most virtuous are the Calabrians, who only spent €362 per capita (€2.4 per day) on average, followed by those from the Basilicata and Sicily regions, both at €376.

Although their region recorded the lowest total takings, residents of the Valle d’Aosta spend only slightly below the national level, with a total expenditure of €477 each over the five-month period.

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