The Canadian Passport Was Ranked The 7th Most Powerful In The World
Canada tied with the United States.
The Canadian passport atop a luggage with a Canada flag souvenir beside it.
The most powerful passports in the world were ranked and the Canadian passport managed to land in the 7th tier — tying with the United States.
The Henley Passport Index, from migration consultancy firm Henley & Partners, is based on exclusive data from the International Air Transport Association (IATA). The ranking examined a total of 199 passports and 227 possible travel destinations. The ranking then identifies the number of countries that each passport can access visa-free.
A total of six countries managed to score in the first tier, allowing its citizens to visit 194 countries completely visa-free. France, Japan, Singapore, and Spain were among the countries ranked as having the most powerful passports in the world.
The Canadian passport ranked 7th overall with visa-free access to 188 countries — tying with Hungary and the United States.
European countries completely dominated the 2024 ranking, with over 25 European countries making the top 10.
Passports from Sweden, Finland and South Korea all ranked second overall with visa-free access to 193 countries globally. Other passports were not as fortunate. Passports from Yemen (100), Pakistan (101), Iraq (102), Syria (103) and Afghanistan (104) were ranked as having the least powerful passports in the world, with visa-free access to anywhere from 28 to 35 countries.
Wondering which other passports across the world are among the most powerful? Here's the complete top 10 of the best passports in 2024, per the Henley Passport Index:
- France (1)
- Germany (1)
- Italy (1)
- Japan (1)
- Singapore (1)
- Spain (1)
- Finland (2)
- South Korea (2)
- Sweden (2)
- Austria (3)
- Denmark (3)
- Ireland (3)
- Netherlands (3)
- Belgium (4)
- Luxembourg (4)
- Norway (4)
- Portugal (4)
- United Kingdom (4)
- Greece (5)
- Malta (5)
- Switzerland (5)
- Czechia (6)
- Poland (6)
- New Zealand (6)
- Canada (7)
- Hungary (7)
- United States (7)
- Estonia (8)
- Lithuania (8)
- Latvia (9)
- Slovakia (9)
- Slovenia (9)
- Iceland (10)
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