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The world's most powerful passports in 2024

Where can your passport take you?
25th most powerful: St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Vatican City
24th most powerful: The Bahamas
23rd most powerful: Mexico
22nd most powerful: Barbados
21st most powerful: Israel
20th most powerful: Brunei
19th most powerful: Andorra, Hong Kong
18th most powerful: San Marino
17th most powerful: Brazil
16th most powerful: Argentina
15th most powerful: Chile
14th most powerful: Monaco
13th most powerful: Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania
12th most powerful: Cyprus, Liechtenstein, Malaysia
11th most powerful: UAE
10th most powerful: Iceland
9th most powerful: Latvia, Slovakia, Slovenia
8th most powerful: Estonia, Lithuania
7th most powerful: Canada, Hungary, US
6th most powerful: Australia, Czechia, New Zealand, Poland
5th most powerful: Greece, Malta, Switzerland
4th most powerful: Belgium, Luxembourg, Norway, Portugal, UK
3rd most powerful: Austria, Denmark, Ireland, Netherlands
2nd most powerful: Finland, South Korea, Sweden
Most powerful: France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Singapore, Spain
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Where can your passport take you?

The Henley Passport Index has revealed the most powerful passports for 2024. Covering 227 travel destinations worldwide, the index ranks 199 passports by the number of countries they enable people to enter without an existing visa. 

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the world's weakest passport is Afghanistan's, which offers visa-free travel to just 28 countries. At the other end of the scale, and for the first time in the history of the index, six passports are tied in being the gateway to 194 nations. Read on to discover the 25 most powerful groups of passports ranked in ascending order. Does yours make the list?

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Alice Cattley

17 January 2024

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