Afghanistan also modified some of their BMP-1 by placing the ZU-23 on top of it, and Greece modified some of the BMP-1A1 Ost that they imported from Germany. I haven't seen numbers on how many either modified, but Greece had close to 500 of both the BMP-1A1 Ost and the ZU-23-2, so barring additional imports that's the maximum they could have converted (and it's probably fewer).
edit: one key difference is the Afghanis and Greeks replaced the main turret with the ZU-23, instead of glomming it on top of the existing turret.
This conversion probably makes even more sense now than it would twenty years ago, since it can also serve as a last-ditch SPAAG against low-end drones; while it's obsolete against most modern piloted aircraft, the Shaheds and Orlans of the world can still be engaged by small-caliber autocannon.
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