Canadian passport ranked 7th most powerful in the world

Credit to Author: Canadian Immigrant| Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2024 22:02:49 +0000

Canada now shares the seventh spot on the latest Henley Passport Index, a ranking of all the world’s passports according to the number of destinations their holders can access without a prior visa. The index includes 199 different passports and 227 different travel destinations.

Released by global residence and citizenship advisory firm Henley & Partners, the ranking is based on exclusive and official data from the International Air Transport Association (IATA), which maintains the world’s largest and most accurate database of travel information.

Canada has moved one spot up from the eighth-place ranking it maintained for the past three years. Canadians can now travel without a visa to 185 countries.

On the top of the list is Singapore, with citizens able to visit 192 travel destinations visa-free out of the 227 across the globe.

Commenting on the latest data, Dr. Christian H. Kaelin, Chairman of Henley & Partners and the inventor of the passport index concept, says “the general trend over the past two decades has been towards greater travel freedom, with the global average number of destinations travelers are able to access visa-free nearly doubling from 58 in 2006 to 111 in 2024.” He also points out that “the global mobility gap between those at the top and bottom of the index is now wider than it has ever been, with top-ranked Singapore able to access a record-breaking 169 more destinations visa-free than Afghanistan.”

Here is the latest list of the top 10 rankings.

1. Singapore (195 destinations)
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, Czechia, Hungary, Malta (187)
8. United States (186)
9. Estonia, Lithuania, United Arab Emirates (185)
10. Iceland, Latvia, Slovakia, Slovenia (184)

Find more information on the rankings here.

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