The most powerful passports in the world for 2024: The fall of the USA does not stop, this is how Albania and Kosovo are ranked

2024-07-23 19:52:32Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
The most powerful passports in the world for 2024: The fall of the USA does not
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Singapore's passport has been ranked as the most powerful in the world for 2024 so far, as it allows you to travel to 195 countries around the world without a visa.

For 19 years, the Henley Passport Index, created by the British company Henley & Partners, using data from the International Air Transport Association (IATA).

The ranking is followed by the passports of Japan, Germany, France, Italy and Spain, which share the second place, with which citizens of these countries can travel without visas to 192 destinations.

In third place are the passports of South Korea, Sweden, Finland, Austria, Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, with which one can travel to 191 countries.

Meanwhile, the decline of the American passport does not stop.

The United States, which until 2014 led this ranking together with the United Kingdom, now after a decade has fallen down. This year the USA ranks eighth, as the American passport allows you to travel without a visa to 186 countries.

The biggest increase this year has been achieved by the United Arab Emirates, which enters the top 10 most powerful passports for the first time. With the passport of the United Arab Emirates, you can move freely in 185 countries, while one year it was ranked 62nd, and this year it has crossed a full 53 countries, ranking ninth.

Albania ranks 43rd in this index. Our passport allows you to travel visa-free to 123 countries. While Kosovo is ranked 20 places below, in 63rd, with its passport valid for visa-free travel to 79 destinations.

The 10 most powerful passports in the world for 2024

1- Singapore (195 countries)

2- France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain (192)

3- Austria, Finland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, South Korea, Sweden (191)

4- Belgium, Denmark, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland, United Kingdom (190)

5- Australia, Portugal (189)

6- Greece, Poland (188)

7- Canada, Czech Republic, Hungary, Malta (187)

8- USA (186)

9- Estonia, Lithuania, United Arab Emirates (185)

10- Iceland, Latvia, Slovakia, Slovenia (184)


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