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I took per-country data from bitcoinstatus.rowit.co.uk, and calculated per-capita adoption based on population size (taken from Wikipedia).
Here is the list in descending order of nodes per 100,000 people, and another one per 100,000 internet users:

Country Finland Iceland Sweden Slovenia Canada Australia Norway Netherlands United_States Estonia Luxembourg New Zealand Latvia Czech_Republic Switzerland Denmark Ireland United_Kingdom Germany Bulgaria Austria Lithuania Poland Israel Belgium Romania Ukraine Russian_Federation Portugal Belarus Slovakia Serbia Croatia Greece Singapore France Hungary Hong_Kong Moldova Spain Italy Bosnia_Herzegowina Argentina Kazakhstan Chile Taiwan South Africa Venezuela Brazil Thailand Mexico Malaysia Colombia Korea Japan Viet_Nam China Philippines Turkey Indonesia India

nodes per 100,000 people 4.39 4.37 2.98 2.62 2.56 2.44 2.40 2.33 2.19 2.16 2.15 1.91 1.74 1.73 1.71 1.68 1.57 1.48 1.47 1.43 1.37 1.01 0.95 0.91 0.88 0.81 0.79 0.78 0.77 0.72 0.62 0.55 0.54 0.49 0.48 0.45 0.44 0.42 0.39 0.38 0.31 0.28 0.26 0.20 0.16 0.12 0.10 0.08 0.07 0.06 0.06 0.05 0.05 0.04 0.04 0.04 0.03 0.02 0.02 0.01 0.00

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Country Finland Iceland Slovenia Sweden Canada Bulgaria Estonia Australia United_States Norway Ukraine Netherlands Czech_Republic Luxembourg New_Zealand Latvia Switzerland Ireland Denmark Russian_Federation Germany Belarus Austria United_Kingdom Romania Poland Lithuania Israel Portugal Serbia Belgium Moldova Greece Slovakia Hungary Croatia Singapore France Spain Hong_Kong Italy South_Africa Bosnia_Herzegowina Kazakhstan Argentina Chile Thailand Venezuela Brazil Taiwan Mexico Viet_Nam Malaysia Colombia China Philippines Korea Japan India Indonesia Turkey

nodes per 100,000 internet users 5.06 4.74 3.75 3.43 3.22 2.90 2.85 2.84 2.81 2.74 2.59 2.54 2.45 2.40 2.30 2.28 2.05 2.01 1.89 1.83 1.79 1.78 1.77 1.75 1.60 1.53 1.39 1.38 1.36 1.26 1.17 1.00 0.93 0.83 0.75 0.73 0.64 0.58 0.58 0.57 0.53 0.49 0.47 0.44 0.37 0.30 0.26 0.20 0.17 0.17 0.16 0.11 0.09 0.09 0.07 0.07 0.05 0.05 0.05 0.04 0.04

Belize is a country of only 300k people and I know of at least 3 people using bitcoin. 

You'd think we would have made the list.

Glad to hear that. The reasons for not seeing Belize in the Rowit list may be:

- No data collection is perfect, and Rowit is certainly not an exception.
- Those three people would need to be running their clients with the listening port open (I think).
- IP-to-country databases are sometimes wrong.

Interesting. Perhaps you want to calculate it per internet user though, instead of per capita:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_Internet_users

Clearly, Bitcoin protocol is buggy around the equator:

https://i.imgur.com/zogNs.png

 ;D

Good point. I fixed the OP!

Cool stuff, didn't realize we're 4th and 3rd measuring adoption like this but I think it's awesome and after Tuesday's presentation we held at a popular cyber cafe in our capital city there might be even more!

Very cool. I'd love to see that data automatically updated (daily) and represented on a world map. You could sit back and watch bitcoin taking over the world.

Russia is not #1? lies

The first country, Finland, has an extremely high education rate. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hjvk8aDqy8)


The second country, Iceland, just got through putting their bankers in jail. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64eI831eKY8)


Putting them together, we see that the smart people, who put the blame where it should be ... go with bitcoin.

I was just about to say, cheers Finland and Iceland! And smart people!

Let's not break out the champagne yet, 4 out of 100,000 is still laughable adoption stats.

Where it's needed more (Africa, Argentina, Venezuela etc.) it is used less.

I think they can manage 50k satoshi per transaction. :)

Canada is in 5th place, its cool... but we can do better!
Go Canada!

Can we get this list online versus on this forum?

The sources are cited in the OP. Help yourself!