Which Are The Most And Least Powerfull Passports In World?
India is ranked 87th out of 199 passports on the Henley Passport Index, which ranks the strongest and weakest passports based on information provided by the International Air Transport Authority (IATA). 60 nations accept Indian passport holders without requiring a visa.
As the world recovers from Covid-19, Japan, Singapore, and South Korea now have the most powerful passports, reversing the pre-pandemic ranks that were dominated by European countries.
According to Henley & Partners, an immigration consultancy, a Japanese passport offers hassle-free entry to 193 countries, one more than passports from Singapore and South Korea.
The 50th-ranked Russian travel documents are recognised by 119 countries with ease. China came in at number 69 with access to 80 nations, followed by India at number 87 and Afghanistan at number one with just access to 27 nations.
Henley & Partners Chairman Christian Kaelin said in a statement that “the recuperation and reclamation of our travel freedoms, and our fundamental drive to move and migrate, will take time.”
According to the ranking, Asian nations’ passports hardly ever appeared among the top 10 most widely used passports worldwide as recently as 2017. Germany is now in second place to South Korea as Europe’s dominance has increasingly waned. According to the most recent rankings, the US is ranked seventh with a score of 186, while the UK is ranked sixth with access to 187 countries.
The index, which is based on data from 17 years, aids affluent people and governments in evaluating the worth of citizenships around the world by identifying which passports provide the greatest amounts of visa-free or visa-on-arrival access. The index, however, only provides a hypothetical glimpse of the greatest documents to hold as the world emerges from the pandemic, as travel around the world has yet to fully recover from Covid restrictions.
