People in countries living in low economic freedoms tend to use Bitcoin more. A study by data scientist Matt Ahlborg shows that countries that increase the use of Bitcoin for local operations (retail trading) are places with economic oppression, currency instability, or even 2. The top countries in the list are Venezuela, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Egypt, Chile and Argentina.
The transactions in these countries are very small, showing that they are the basic exchange of goods for ordinary people, not the transactions of domestic monetary institutions.