The National Council on Problem Gambling conducts surveys on problematic gambling every three years. The results showed a gambling addiction rate of 4.1% in 2005, 2.9% in 2008, and 2.6% in 2011. In 2017, the rate of pathological or problem gambling increased by 0.2% since the previous survey in 2014, but this minor increase was not statistically significant.according to the 2020 survey 44% of people in Singapore 18 and above had taken part in some sort of gambling activity and between 0.02% and 0.04% of those surveyed had a gambling problem.