World Passport Rating 2019: Henley Passport Index table * Cities and countries

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Passport is a friend of a person. Without it, you won’t get the help you need, you won’t receive and send the package, and you won’t do another thousand and one necessary things. And, of course, you cannot visit another country without a passport.

Residents of many countries of the world have “privileged” passports that allow them to visit more than a hundred states without a visa or in a simplified manner. And every year, a world passport rating (Henley Passport) is created, an index that gives an idea of the best and worst passports in the world. 2019 was no exception.

The annual list of the British consulting agency Henley & Partners evaluates passports depending on the number of countries to which its holders can obtain a visa-free or simplified entry.

Complete table of world passport rating 2019

A place	State passport	Number of available countries
1	Japan	190
2	Singapore	189
2	South Korea	189
3	France	188
3	Germany	188
4	Denmark	187
4	Finland	187
4	Italy	187
4	Sweden	187
5	Luxembourg	186
5	Spain	186
6	Austria	185
6	Netherlands	185
6	Norway	185
6	Portugal	185
6	Switzerland	185
6	Great Britain	185
6	United States	185
7	Belgium	184
7	Canada	184
7	Greece	184
7	Ireland	184
8	Czech Republic	183
9	Malta	182
10	Australia	181
10	Iceland	181
10	new Zealand	181
11	Hungary	180
11	Latvia	180
11	Lithuania	180
11	Slovakia	180
11	Slovenia	180
12	Estonia	179
12	Malaysia	179
13	Liechtenstein	178
14	Chile	175
15	Monaco	174
15	Poland	174
16	Cyprus	173
17	Brazil	171
18	Argentina	170
19	Bulgaria	169
19	Hong Kong	169
19	Romania	169
20	Andorra	168
20	Croatia	168
20	San marino	168
21	Brunei	165
22	United Arab Emirates	164
23	Israel	161
24	Barbados	159
25	Mexico	158
26	Bahamas	154
26	Uruguay	154
27	Seychelles	151
27	Saint Kitts and Nevis	151
28	Antigua and Barbuda	150
29	Costa Rica	149
29	Taiwan	149
30	Trinidad and Tobago	148
30	Vatican	148
31	Mauritius	145
31	Saint lucia	145
32	Macau	144
32	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	144
33	Grenada	143
33	Paraguay	143
34	Panama	141
35	Venezuela	138
36	Dominica	137
36	Salvador	137
36	Honduras	137
37	Guatemala	136
38	Peru	134
39	Solomon islands	130
40	Serbia	129
40	Vanuatu	129
41	Nicaragua	128
41	Samoa	128
41	Ukraine	128
42	Colombia	127
42	Tuvalu	127
43	Macedonia	125
44	Marshall Islands	124
44	Tonga	124
45	Kiribati	123
45	Montenegro	123
46	Moldova	122
47	Micronesia	121
48	Russian Federation	119
49	Bosnia and Herzegovina	118
49	Islands of palau	118
50	Albania	115
51	Georgia	114
52	Turkey	111
53	Belize	101
53	South Africa	101
54	East Timor	97
55	Ecuador	93
56	Kuwait	91
57	Fiji	89
58	Guyana	88
59	Maldives	86
59	Nauru	86
60	Qatar	85
61	Jamaica	83
61	Papua New Guinea	83
62	Botswana	82
63	Bahrain	81
64	Suriname	80
65	Bolivia	79
66	Belarus	77
67	Kazakhstan	76
67	Oman	76
68	Namibia	75
68	Thailand	75
69	China	74
69	Lesotho	74
70	Saudi Arabia	73
71	Swaziland	72
72	Indonesia	71
72	Kenya	71
72	Malawi	71
73	Gambia	68
73	Tanzania	68
73	Zambia	68
74	Azerbaijan	66
74	Philippines	66
74	Tunisia	66
75	Cape Verde	65
75	Cuba	65
75	Dominican Republic	65
76	Kyrgyzstan	64
76	Uganda	64
76	Zimbabwe	64
77	Ghana	63
78	Sierra leone	62
79	Armenia	61
79	Benin	61
79	India	61
79	Mongolia	61
79	Morocco	61
80	Mauritania	58
80	Mozambique	58
80	Sao Tome and Principe	58
80	Tajikistan	58
80	Uzbekistan	58
81	Burkina Faso	57
82	Cote D'Ivoire	56
82	Guinea	56
82	Senegal	56
83	Butane	55
83	Gabon	55
83	Mali	55
83	Togo	55
84	Cambodia	54
84	Niger	54
84	Rwanda	54
85	Chad	53
85	Guinea Bissau	53
85	Madagascar	53
85	Turkmenistan	53
86	Comoros	52
86	Laos	52
87	Equatorial Guinea	51
87	Haiti	51
87	Vietnam	51
88	Algeria	50
88	Jordan	50
89	Angola	49
89	Central African Republic	49
89	Egypt	49
90	Cameroon	48
90	Myanmar	48
91	Republic of the Congo	47
91	Liberia	47
91	Nigeria	47
92	Burundi	46
93	Djibouti	45
94	Kosovo	44
95	Democratic Republic of the Congo	43
95	Sri Lanka	43
96	Ethiopia	42
96	Iran	42
96	North Korea	42
97	Bangladesh	41
97	Lebanon	41
97	Libya	41
97	South Sudan	41
98	Nepal	40
99	Palestinian territory	39
99	Sudan	39
100	Eritrea	38
101	Yemen	37
102	Pakistan	33
103	Somalia	32
103	Syria	32
104	Afghanistan	30
104	Iraq	30

Why is the passport index so important

The passport index is the most accurate means of measuring the accessibility of residents of different countries to other countries. It goes beyond simply ranking passports and provides a detailed picture of your freedom of movement, including the following information:

which countries you can access with a certain type of visa;
how the "weight" of your passport has changed over the past 14 years;
by what parameters is your passport compared with other passports;
why your passport has this or that access level;
which additional passports can improve your mobility.

Henley Passport is the only passport rating based on information provided by the International Air Transport Association, supplemented by extensive internal research, supported by expert comments and updated regularly throughout the year, making it the most reliable and trustworthy index of its kind.

Countries with the best passports in the world

For the second time in a row, Japan ranks first as the country issuing the most powerful passport in the world.

The Japanese have the most convenient travel passport in the world thanks to access to 190 countries.
A South Korean passport raised its position from the October index to join Singapore in second place, offering access to 189 jurisdictions.
Passports of France and Germany took third place, offering access to 188 countries of the world.
European countries - Denmark, Finland, Sweden and Italy - “in tightness but not in insult” took fourth place. Passports of these countries allow visa-free access to 187 countries.
With access to 186 countries, Luxembourg and Spain passports ranked fifth.
European countries - Austria, Portugal, Norway, the Netherlands, Switzerland - also showed good results, sharing the sixth line of the Passport Index with the United Kingdom and the United States of America. At the same time, the United Kingdom dropped from 4th to 6th place, while the United States dropped from 5th to 6th place, giving visa-free or simplified visa access in 185 directions.
Belgium, Canada, Ireland and Greece jointly rank 7th, giving their citizens access to 184 destinations around the world.
The Czech Republic single-handedly ranks eighth in terms of a powerful passport index with access to 183 countries.
Malta is firmly in ninth position, allowing visa-free access to 182 countries.
Australia, Iceland and New Zealand share 10th position, providing visa-free travel to 181 countries.

The largest "climbers" in the report were China, Colombia, Tuvalu and the United Arab Emirates - all rose five positions compared to the previous year.

“The historical data from the Passport Index over the past 14 years show an overwhelming global trend towards visa openness,” said Christian H. Kelin, chairman of the Henley & Partners group, adding that despite rising isolationist sentiments in some parts of the world, most countries are committed to ideas cooperation and mutually beneficial agreements.

Countries with the worst passports in the world

Passports of the lowest tourist rank in Europe are issued to residents of Kosovo - 94th place in the list.

Residents of Iraq and Afghanistan have the least “powerful” passports, providing access without a visa or by a simplified scheme in only 30 countries. Syria, Somalia, Pakistan, Yemen and Eritrea - some of the poorest countries in the world - complement the bottom of the list of best and worst passports in 2019.

Russia's place in the ranking of passports 2019

Our country ranked 48th at Henley Passport. Russians can visit 119 countries without a visa or in a simplified mode. Of course, this is significantly less than that of the leaders of the rating, but not so bad, given that 104 states were included in the list.

Commenting on the 2019 Henley Passport report, Froilan Malit, Gulf Worker, Migration and Population Markets program researcher and Center for International Education and Leadership Center, said: “In general, international migration not only helps stabilize economic growth in the Asia-Pacific region, but and allows many South and Southeast Asian labor supplying countries to maintain sustainable economic growth even during times of crisis. ”

Experts expect that neither the United States nor EU member states will be able to substantially revise their current visa policies, while countries in other parts of Europe, as well as in Asia and the Middle East, are likely to conclude new cancellation agreements. visas with diplomatic allies.

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