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Crypto Ownership more than doubles in Morocco, Egypt, Tunisia and Lebanon

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  The TRIPLE A January 2023 crypto ownership country report  noted that the number of cryptocurrency users has increased since January 2022. In January 2023 there were 420 million crypto owners globally; this is up from their previous report in January 2022 where they had stated there were 300 million crypto owners globally. In the Arab world biggest growth was seen in Morocco, Egypt, Lebanon, Tunisia, and even Iraq.  More interesting is that if we compare the percentage of crypto owners in the Arab world between January 2022 and January 2023 in some countries the increase is exponential. For example in Jan 2022 2.38% of Moroccan population owned crypto, by January 2023 this number had increased to 4.9% an increase of more than 2% in one year. The same goes for Egypt, Tunisia, and Lebanon were the increase was also significant. Country Jan 2022 Crypto Ownership % Jan 2023 crypto ownership % Crypto Ownership Population 2023 Morocco