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While slightly out of date by now (doesn't have the latest years) and only having data from two sources (localbitcoins & paxful), this research from CoinDesk shows that the P2P market for cryptocurrencies have been growing solidly in the "unbanked" world, especially Venezuela: https://observablehq.com/@coindesk-research/localbitcoins-pa...

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Thanks do you have any with the number of unique account? I'm not too sure volumes of bitcoin means anything if people use it illegally.

That's a good idea, but even if I did, I don't think it would give a fair view and creating new accounts/addresses is cheap enough. So someone holding a lot of volume is most likely not holding it in the same address.

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