According to official statistics, the population of the former Portuguese colony, already the most densely populated place in the world rose by 4.98 per cent in the 12 months ending in June and now stands at 551,900.
Meantime, online gambling is growing in Italy, and Italians are spending an average of $881 a year for online gambling.
In Macau, the Statistics and Census Bureau forecast the population is to grow by 4.6 per cent a year and reach 644,000 residents by 2011.
Government experts said the rise is because of an increase in imported labor flooding Macau to man its casinos and hotels and not an increase in births.
New workers accounted for 98,505 of the population there - an increase of more than 23,000 on the year before.
Sources said this growth is putting a strain on land, infrastructure and the electricity supply of the tiny Chinese enclave, which has a population density of 18,900 people per square kilometer, compared with 6,736 in nearby Hong Kong.
"It would be hard for Macau to sustain a much bigger population with its current infrastructure and land resources," Professor Zeng Zhonglu of Macau's Polytechnic Institute said.
Macau's casino industry was overhauled a few years ago, enabling Las Vegas -owned casinos to compete for the first time with the dozen existing casinos owned by tycoon Stanley Ho's monopoly.
Last April, Chief Executive Edmund Ho announced a series of tough measures aimed at curbing the spiraling growth of the casino industry.
This included not granting new licenses for casinos, gaming tables and slot machines and barring casino operators from using reclaimed land for further development.
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Macau is the only place in China where gambling is allowed.
The city now has 4,311 gaming tables and 13,552 slot machines, compared with 424 and 814 in 2003, respectively. The number of casinos has rocketed from 11 to 29.
This includes several new upmarket Las Vegas-style resorts, such as the 2.4-billion-US-dollar Venetian Macao Resort.
Back in Italy, online poker players in Italy spend an average of $881 per person a year on the pastime producing a yearly haul of $514 million according to a new survey released as the nation’s Government gets set to legalise, license and control Internet gambling.
The research report, announced last week, was carried out by the Consumers Defense and Orientation Association (ADOC) and found that nearly two million Italian residents have=2 0gone online at least once in order to play a game of opportunity with a quarter using outside Internet gambling websites .
Researchers stated that online gaming is growing in popularity with visits to foreign gambling websites up 25 percent. In addition, ADOC revealed that 16,000 Italians 'might be considered' problem gamblers with an average level of debt varying from $14,600 to $17,600 going as high as $58,700 in extreme cases.
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