going by the official count in the latest unicode version released at the end of that year

in 2026:

Unicode 17.0 specifies a total of 3,953 emoji using 1,438 characters spread across 24 blocks, of which 26 are Regional indicator symbols that combine in pairs to form flag emoji, and twelve (⟨#⟩, ⟨*⟩ and ⟨0⟩–⟨9⟩) are base characters for keycap emoji sequences.[1][2][3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emojis