Japan, Singapore, and South Korea have the most powerful passports because the world continues to recover from Covid-19, reversing pre-Pandemic rankings which are dominated by European countries.
Japanese passports provide free entries to 193 countries, one more than those from Singapore and South Korea, according to the latest Henley passport index from Henley & Partners, an immigration consultant.
Russian travel documents are ranked 50th, provide easy access to 119 countries. China is in the 69th position with access to 80 countries, Indian passports are ranked 87th and Afghan Passports are the most useless, getting the holder to only 27 countries.
Recovery and reclamation of our travel freedom, and our innate instincts to move and migrate, will take time,” said Chairman of Henley & Mitra Christian Kaelin in a statement.
Recently in 2017, Asian countries almost did not appear among the 10 most accepted passports in the world, according to the index. European dominance gradually subsided and Germany now trailed South Korea. Britain is sixth with access to 187 countries, while the seventh US with a score of 186, the latest rank shows.
Index, which uses 17 years of data, helps individuals and rich governments assesses citizenship values throughout the world based on which passports offer the most productive visa free access, or visa-on-visa. However, with a global journey not yet fully recovered from the COVID restrictions, this index only offers nocial snapshots from the best documents to hold when the world emerges from Pandemi.
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