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These are the most (and least) powerful passports in the world in 2022
2022-07-20 12:53:59 / JETË
Japan, Singapore and South Korea have the most powerful passports as the world continues to recover from Covid-19, overturning the pre-pandemic rankings dominated by European nations.
A Japanese passport offers seamless entry to 193 countries, one more than those from Singapore and South Korea, according to the latest Henley Passport Index from Henley & Partners, an immigration consultancy.
Russian travel documents are ranked 50th, giving easy access to 119 countries. China was ranked 69th with access to 80 countries, India's passport ranked 87th and Afghanistan's passport is the least useful, getting the holder into just 27 countries.
"Recovering and reclaiming our freedoms to travel and our innate instinct to move and migrate will take time," Henley & Partners chairman Christian Kaelin said in a statement.
Until 2017, Asian countries barely appeared among the top 10 most accepted passports in the world, according to the index. Europe's dominance has gradually softened and Germany is now behind South Korea. The UK is sixth with access to 187 countries, while the US is seventh with a score of 186, the latest rankings show.
The index, which uses 17 years of data, helps wealthy individuals and governments assess the value of citizenships around the world, based on which passports offer the most fruitful visa-free or visa-on-arrival access. However, with global travel yet to fully recover from Covid restrictions, the index provides only a snapshot of the best documents to hold as the world emerges from the pandemic.
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