India Ranks At 80th Spot In Passport Index. Meanwhile, Singapore has replaced Japan with having the world’s most powerful passport, allowing visa-free entry to 193 global destinations.
For five long years, Japan has been sitting pretty in the No.1 position in the Henley Passport Index, which measures global travel freedom in terms of how much visa-free and visa-on-demand access to the world different citizens enjoy.
But for summer 2023, Japan’s been knocked down into third place and the new titleholder is Singapore, whose citizens are able to visit 193 destinations out of 227 around the world visa-free.
India’s passport ranking has improved to 80 in 2023 from 87 in 2022, giving its holders visa free access to as many as 57 countries.
And while Asia has long dominated the top of the leaderboard in the index created by London-based global citizenship and residence advisory firm Henley & Partners, Europe is bouncing back. Germany, Italy and Spain have all moved up into second place with visa-free access to 190 destinations, while Japan and South Korea are joined in the No.3 slot by Austria, Finland, France, Luxembourg and Sweden. Citizens from that particular magnificent seven enjoy access to 189 destinations without needing a prior visa.
The United States and the United Kingdom have both been on a downward trajectory since the halcyon days when they jointly held the No.1 spot way back in 2014, but the UK, at least, appears to be turning things around. It’s made a sprightly two-rankings hop to No.4 in the ranking, a position it’s not held since 2017. The US, meanwhile, has dropped a further two places to eight spot, with access to a mere 183 destinations visa-free.
The Henley Passport Index is based on data from the International Air Transport Association (IATA) and ranks 199 passports worldwide. It’s updated in real time throughout the year, as and when visa policy changes come into effect.
Check Full list here:
Asia:
Bhutan
Cambodia (visa on arrival)
Indonesia (visa on arrival)
Kazakhstan
Laos (visa on arrival)
Macao (SAR China)
Maldives (visa on arrival)
Myanmar (visa on arrival)
Nepal
Sri Lanka (visa on arrival)
Thailand (visa on arrival)
Timor-Leste (visa on arrival)
Americas:
Bolivia (visa on arrival)
El Salvador
Africa:
Burundi (visa on arrival)
Cape Verde Islands (visa on arrival)
Comoro Islands (visa on arrival)
Djibouti (visa on arrival)
Gabon (visa on arrival)
Guinea-Bissau (visa on arrival)
Madagascar (visa on arrival)
Mauritania (visa on arrival)
Mauritius
Mozambique (visa on arrival)
Rwanda (visa on arrival)
Senegal
Seychelles (visa on arrival)
Sierra Leone (visa on arrival)
Somalia (visa on arrival)
Tanzania (visa on arrival)
Togo (visa on arrival)
Tunisia
Zimbabwe (visa on arrival)
Oceania:
Cook Islands
Fiji
Marshall Islands (visa on arrival)
Micronesia
Niue
Palau Islands (visa on arrival)
Samoa (visa on arrival)
Tuvalu (visa on arrival)
Vanuatu
Middle East:
Iran (voa)
Jordan (voa)
Oman
Qatar
Caribbean:
Barbados
British Virgin Islands
Dominica
Grenada
Haiti
Jamaica
Montserrat
St. Kitts and Nevis
St. Lucia (visa on arrival)
St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Trinidad and Tobago
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