Singapore takes the top spot in Henley & Partners' 2024 Passport Index, granting citizens visa-free access to 195 destinations.
A nation-state tied for the top spot in 2024 on a list produced by the migration consultancy Henley & Partners , which ranks passports by the number of destinations that holders can access without needing a visa. Singapore broke ahead of the other five countries — Japan, Germany, Italy, Spain and France — with its citizens granted visa-free access to 195 out of 227 global destinations, according to the ranking published Wednesday.Japan is ranked No.
2, with visa-free access to 193 spots, while the four European countries that were tied for the top spot last year, plus Finland and South Korea, share third place, with each granting passport holders the ability to visit 192 destinations without needing a visa.'Visa-free,' according to the index, includes situations where no visa is required, or when easier-to-obtain entrance documents, such as visas on arrival, visitor's permits and electronic travel authorities, are required. The United Arab Emirates is one of the'biggest climbers' on the list, according to a press release, having gained visa-free access to 72 destinations in the past decade, for a total of 185 destinations worldwide. It's just behind the United States, whose citizens can visit 186 places without needing a visa, according to the ranking.The second-biggest fallerChina rose in the ranking to land in 60th place in 2025. Its openness to other countries also greatly increased, with China now allowing citizens from 58 destinations to visit visa-free — half of which were added in the past year — according to the. It was ranked last for granting access to only 26 out of 227 destinations. Its citizens can visit places such as Cambodia, Maldives, Djibouti, Sri Lanka and Haiti without needing to obtain a visa. The gap between the strongest and weakest passports on the list is the largest in the index's 19-year history, according to Henley & Partner
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