Number of zakat beneficiaries since the UNHCR Zakat Fund launch worldwide 2017-2022
As of 2022, roughly 4.13 million people received assistance through zakat contributions made to the UNHCR's Refugee Zakat Fund which was launched in 2017. In 2022, roughly 756,000 people were assisted by zakat contributions from the fund. Although this figure was higher than the previous year, it was still much lower than its peak of 1.63 million in 2020..