The North American Association of State and Provincial Lotteries (NASPL), comprising US and Canadian lotteries, generated total sales of more than US$20.3bn in the final quarter of 2014, an increase of 2 per cent versus a year ago.
The results include sales from 46 state lotteries in the US and five provincial lotteries in Canada.
The combined US lotteries generated total sales of $18.4bn in Q4, up 3 per cent versus the previous year, while sales from Canadian lotteries fell 7 per cent to CAD$2.4bn (US1.9bn).
