Crypto Ownership Statistics 2026: Which Countries Own the Most Bitcoin?

The number of people who own cryptocurrency has grown from around 420 million in 2024 to somewhere between 560 million and 770 million today. The gap between those two figures reflects how difficult this data is to collect, not a disagreement about whether growth is happening. No central authority tracks crypto wallets by country. Transactions are pseudonymous by design. Every ownership estimate is built from a mix of exchange data, on-chain analytics, and consumer surveys. Different methods produce different totals. This article brings together data from TripleA, GWI, Crypto.com, the Chainalysis Global Adoption Index, and a 2026 European Central Bank working paper covering 17 euro area countries. The aim is to present what the data shows, where sources agree, and where they diverge.

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