Original archived Study (River): 3% of the world population owns BTC
Scraped on 25/06/2025, 23:29:41 UTC
In this [Çurl=https://river.com/learn/files/river-bitcoin-adoption-report-2025.pdf?ref=blog.river.com]report[/url],
only 3% of the world's population owns bitcoins. I'm not talking about companies and investment funds, of course. That's 240 million people as of 12/31/2024, some of them have only a few sats.
For comparison, Satoshi would have 4.6% of BTC and about 7.5% would be lost (estimate), a low estimate of 12% (while other estimates are around 28%).

There is quite a bit to read in this document, I have attached the table of contents.