Last Thursday (January 11), Henley Passport Index based in London published the rating of passports on the planet. In the great list, Singapore was included within the list of the world’s strongest passports together with six other countries including France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Spain. These passports provide residents with travel privileges to 194 destinations without the necessity for a visa.
Singapore leads the South East Asia region, followed by Malaysia in twelfth place (access to 182 destinations), Brunei in twentieth place (access to 168 destinations), East Timor in 58th place (access to 94 destinations), Thailand in 63rd place (access to 82 destinations), Indonesia in 66th place (access to 77 destinations) and the Philippines in 73rd place (access to 69 destinations). In this 12 months’s rating, the Philippines ranks 73rd together with Cape Verde and Uganda.
This is followed by Cambodia at 86th (access to 56 destinations), Vietnam at 87th (access to 55 destinations), Laos at ninetieth (access to 51 destinations) and Myanmar at 92nd (access to 48 destinations).
At the underside of the world rankings, Afghanistan is in 104th place with access to twenty-eight destinations, followed by Syria in 103rd (with access to 29 destinations), Iraq in 102nd (with access to 31 destinations), Pakistan in one hundred and first (with access to 34 destinations) ), and Yemen is in a hundredth place (with access to 35 destinations).
Henley’s Passport Index differs from the commonly published Passport Strength Scores, which rank countries based on the share of their global gross domestic product (GDP) that passport holders have visa-free access to.
The index ranks passports based on how accessible they’re to residents without requiring a visa. The index incorporates proprietary and official data from the International Air Transport Association (IATA) and includes information from 199 passports available to passport holders for 227 destinations.
