Not one of the 56 Muslim countries is taking in refugees.
False. Muslim majority countries host millions of refugees according to the latest statistics from the UNHCR.
We’ve seen an incorrect claim that “not one of the 56 Muslim countries is taking in refugees” being shared again on Facebook.
As we’ve explained before, millions of refugees are hosted by countries with majority-Muslim populations.
According to the latest data from the UN’s refugee agency, the UNHCR, five of the ten nations in the world that hosted the most refugees as of the end of 2025 are members of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), which describes itself as “the collective voice of the Islamic world”, and are listed by Pew Research Centre as having Muslim majority populations. These countries are Turkey, Chad, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sudan. Between them they host over seven million refugees.
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