WORLDS MOST POWERFUL PASSPORT 2024

In the latest rankings for visa-free access, several countries have emerged at the top, each providing their citizens with the ability to travel without the need for a visa to 194 destinations. These countries include France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Singapore, and Spain. Following closely behind are Finland, the Netherlands, South Korea, and Sweden, each with access to 193 countries. The third tier features Austria, Denmark, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the United Kingdom, all granting visa-free access to 192 locations.

Belgium, Norway, and Portugal occupy the fourth position with 191 visa-free destinations, while Australia, Greece, Malta, New Zealand, and Switzerland share the fifth spot with 190. Canada, Czechia, Poland, and the United States each have visa-free access to 189 countries, placing them sixth in the rankings. The seventh rank is held by Hungary and Lithuania, both enjoying access to 188 destinations. Estonia follows at eighth with 187 countries, while Latvia, Slovakia, and Slovenia are tied at ninth with 186.

Iceland comes in at tenth with 185 destinations, and the United Arab Emirates ranks eleventh with 184. Malaysia, at twelfth, has access to 183 countries, followed by Liechtenstein with 182. Cyprus stands at fourteenth with 181 destinations, while Bulgaria, Monaco, and Romania are tied for fifteenth, each with 179. Chile follows in sixteenth with access to 177 countries, and Argentina ranks seventeenth with 174. Brazil is eighteenth with 173 destinations, while Andorra, Hong Kong (SAR China), and San Marino share nineteenth place with 172.

Israel ranks twentieth with 171 countries, followed by Brunei at twenty-first with 168. Barbados sits at twenty-second with 165, and Mexico at twenty-third with 161. The Bahamas is twenty-fourth with 159, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, along with Vatican City, are tied at twenty-fifth with 157 destinations. Seychelles, St. Kitts and Nevis, Uruguay, and Antigua and Barbuda are tied at twenty-seventh with 154. Costa Rica ranks twenty-eighth with 152, while Mauritius holds twenty-ninth place with 151. Panama, Grenada, and Ukraine are thirtieth and thirty-first with 149 and 148, respectively.

As we move down the rankings, Paraguay is thirty-second with 145 countries, followed by Macao (SAR China) and Dominica, which share thirty-fourth place with 143 destinations. Taiwan (Chinese Taipei) is also tied with them. Peru holds thirty-fifth place with 142 countries. Serbia is thirty-sixth with 139, and Guatemala is thirty-seventh with 137. El Salvador is thirty-eighth with 136, while Colombia sits at thirty-ninth with 135.

Honduras, the Solomon Islands, and Samoa are all tied for fortieth place with 134 and 133, respectively. Tonga is forty-second with 131, and Nicaragua is forty-third with 130. Tuvalu ranks forty-fourth with 129, while the Marshall Islands hold forty-fifth place with 128. Montenegro and North Macedonia share forty-sixth place with 127. Venezuela is forty-seventh with 126, and both Kiribati and Micronesia hold forty-eighth place with 125 destinations.

Albania and the Palau Islands are tied for forty-ninth place with 124 countries, while Bosnia and Herzegovina rounds out the top fifty with 123 destinations. Georgia and Moldova are fifty-first with 122. Russia follows in fifty-second place with 120, and Türkiye ranks fifty-third with 118. Qatar and South Africa are tied at fifty-fourth with 108. Belize ranks fifty-fifth with 104, and Kuwait is fifty-sixth with 102. The Maldives and Timor-Leste hold fifty-seventh with 96 countries.

Ecuador is fifty-eighth with 95, while Vanuatu is fifty-ninth with 93. Bahrain, Botswana, Guyana, and Nauru are tied at sixtieth with 91 destinations. Fiji, Jamaica, Oman, and Saudi Arabia rank sixty-first with 90. China is sixty-second with 88 countries, and Papua New Guinea is sixty-third with 86. Thailand ranks sixty-fourth with 83, and Bolivia is sixty-fifth with 82. Belarus and Suriname share sixty-sixth with 81 countries.

Lesotho and Namibia are tied at sixty-seventh with 80, and Indonesia, Kazakhstan, and Kosovo rank at sixty-eighth with 78. Kenya, Malawi, and eSwatini are tied at sixty-ninth with 76. The Dominican Republic is seventieth with 74, while Tanzania is seventy-first with 73. Azerbaijan ranks seventy-second with 72, and Morocco, Tunisia, and Zambia share seventy-third with 71. The Gambia and Uganda are tied at seventy-fourth with 70.

Armenia, Cape Verde Islands, and the Philippines are tied at seventy-fifth with 69. Ghana is seventy-sixth with 68, while Sierra Leone ranks seventy-seventh with 67. Rwanda and Zimbabwe are tied at seventy-eighth with 66. Kyrgyzstan is seventy-ninth with 65, and Cuba, Mongolia, and Uzbekistan are tied at eightieth with 64. Benin and Mozambique share eighty-first place with 63, while India is eighty-second with 62.

Gabon, Sao Tome and Principe, and Tajikistan are tied at eighty-third with 61. Burkina Faso and Madagascar rank eighty-fourth with 60, while Cote d’Ivoire, Guinea, Mauritania, and Togo share eighty-fifth with 59. Equatorial Guinea and Senegal are eighty-sixth with 58, and Niger ranks eighty-seventh with 57. Algeria, Cambodia, Guinea-Bissau, Jordan, and Mali are tied at eighty-eighth with 56. Bhutan, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoro Islands, Egypt, and Haiti are all tied at eighty-ninth with 55.

Vietnam is ninetieth with 54, while Angola and Cameroon rank ninety-first with 53. Congo and Turkmenistan share ninety-second with 52. Burundi, Laos, and Liberia are tied at ninety-third with 51. Djibouti is ninety-fourth with 50, while Myanmar ranks ninety-fifth with 48. DR Congo and Ethiopia share ninety-sixth with 47. South Sudan is ninety-seventh with 46, and Iran, Lebanon, Nigeria, and Sudan share ninety-eighth with 45. Sri Lanka is ninety-ninth with 44, while Eritrea ranks one hundredth with 43. Bangladesh and North Korea share one hundred first place with 42, and Palestine is one hundred second with 41. Libya and Nepal are tied at one hundred third with 40, while Somalia is one hundred fourth with 36. Yemen is one hundred fifth with 35, and Pakistan ranks one hundred sixth with 34. Iraq is one hundred seventh with 31, while Syria is one hundred eighth with 29. Afghanistan rounds out the list at one hundred ninth place with 28.