The Samurais’ Passport Is the Most Powerful Worldwide
The Henley Passport Index, the only passport index based on exclusive data provided by the International Air Transport Association (IATA), has been recently released showing the world’s most powerful passports for 2020 with the Japanese and the Singaporean ones topping the list. According to the number of destinations passports’ holders are allowed to access without an earlier visa, the Japanese citizens enjoy a visa-free entry to 191 points of disembarkation and the Singaporeans to 190 . Worth mentioning is that according to the 2019’s ranking , Japan and Singapore shared a joint first place with a visa-free access to 189 countries and territories.
On the other side, Afghanistan came at the very end of the 2020’s list, acquiring the 107th place with 26 countries visa-free. Along with Norway, Greece, Belgium, and the US, the UK shared the eighth place; the citizens of each can pass the demarcation of 184 lands. There is no doubt that Brexit impacted the ranking of the UK whose passport was the world’s most powerful in 2013, 2014, and 2015; afterward, the British passport dropped reaching the sixth place in 2019.
The 2020’s global ranking of the most powerful passports
1. Japan – visa-free access to 191 destinations
2. Singapore – 190
3. Germany and South Korea – 189
4. Finland and Italy – 188
5. Denmark, Luxembourg, and Spain – 187
6. France and Sweden – 186
7. Austria, Ireland, Netherlands, Portugal, and Switzerland – 185
8. Belgium, Greece, Norway, UK, and US – 184
9. Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, Malta, and New Zealand – 183
10. Hungary, Lithuania, and Slovakia – 181
11. Iceland, Latvia, and Slovenia – 180
12. Estonia – 179
13. Liechtenstein and Malaysia – 178
14. Poland – 176
15. Monaco – 175
16. Chile and Cyprus – 174
17. Romania – 172
18. Bulgaria and the UAE – 171
19. Argentina and Brazil – 170
20. Croatia and Hong Kong – 169
21. San Marino – 168
22. Andorra – 167
23. Brunei – 166
24. Barbados – 160