Singapore has the world’s strongest passport, based on the 2025 Henley Passport Index.
The nation-state was one in every of six international locations which tied for the highest spot in 2024 within the record produced by the migration consultancy Henley & Partners, which ranks passports by the variety of locations that holders can entry with no need a visa.
Singapore broke forward of the opposite 5 international locations — Japan, Germany, Italy, Spain and France — with its residents granted visa-free entry to 195 out of 227 world locations, based on the rating printed Wednesday.
Japan is ranked No. 2, with visa-free entry to 193 spots, whereas the 4 European international locations that had been tied for the highest spot final yr, plus Finland and South Korea, share third place, with every granting passport holders the flexibility to go to 192 locations with no need a visa.
Countries in Europe, plus New Zealand, dominate the remainder of the highest 20 record.
The Henley Passport Index makes use of information from the International Air Transport Association to rank 199 passports on the planet.
“Visa-free,” based on the index, consists of conditions the place no visa is required, or when easier-to-obtain entrance paperwork, equivalent to visas on arrival, customer’s permits and digital journey authorities, are required.
Climbers and fallers
The United Arab Emirates is without doubt one of the “greatest climbers” on the record, based on a press launch, having gained visa-free entry to 72 locations prior to now decade, for a complete of 185 locations worldwide.
It’s simply behind the United States, whose residents can go to 186 locations with no need a visa, based on the rating.
The U.S. is one in every of 22 locations the place passports fell within the index prior to now 10 years, it stated.
“Surprisingly, the US is the second-biggest faller between 2015 and 2025 after Venezuela, plummeting seven locations from 2nd to its present ninth place,” the discharge said.
Passports from the United Kingdom — which topped the record in 2015 — and Canada additionally fell, it stated.
China rose within the rating to land in sixtieth place in 2025. Its openness to different international locations additionally drastically elevated, with China now permitting residents from 58 locations to go to visa-free — half of which had been added prior to now yr — based on the Henley Openness Index.
Bottom of the record
Afghanistan is again deemed to have the weakest passport on the list. It was ranked final for granting entry to solely 26 out of 227 locations. Its residents can go to locations equivalent to Cambodia, Maldives, Djibouti, Sri Lanka and Haiti with no need to acquire a visa.
The hole between the strongest and weakest passports on the record is the most important within the index’s 19-year historical past, based on Henley & Partners. Singaporeans can go to 169 extra locations than Afghans can with no need a visa, it states.
After Afghanistan, the weakest passports on the record are these from Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Pakistan, Somalia, Nepal, the Palestinian territories, Libya and Bangladesh, every of which ranks beneath North Korea, whose residents can go to 41 locations worldwide, based on the rating.
