Henley Passport Index 2019 has recently published on its website that shows\nJapan and Singapore holds first position collectively as most powerful\npassports in the world. The index includes 199 passports and 227 travel\ndestinations including micro-states and territories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
India stands at 86th<\/sup> position in this index with a mobility score\nof 58. India shares this 86th position with Mauritiana and Sao Tome and\nPrincipe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Key Highlights<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 As per the Henley Passport Index 2019 Japan and\nSingapore have the world\u2019s most powerful passports. Both the countries secured\ntop position out of 199 countries, thanks to passports which allow visa-free or\nvisa-on-arrival travel to 189 places. Top powerful passports of the world<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 1. Japan, Singapore<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2. Finland, Germany, South Korea<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3. Denmark, Italy, Luxembourg<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4. France, Spain, Sweden<\/p>\n\n\n\n 5. Austria, Netherlands, Portugal, Switzerland<\/p>\n\n\n\n 6. Belgium, Canada, Greece, Ireland, Norway, United Kingdom, United States<\/p>\n\n\n\n Significance of global passport index<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The results are part of citizenship planning firm Henley and Partners\u2019\nannual passport index, which ranks passports based on the number of countries a\nholder can go to without a visa or the number of countries a holder can go to\nwhere they can obtain a visa, visitor\u2019s permit, or electronic travel authority\nupon arrival. Henley Passport Index shows that countries around the world\nincreasingly view visa openness as crucial to economic and social progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Henley Passport Index 2019 has recently published on its website that shows Japan and Singapore holds first position collectively as most powerful passports in the world. The index includes 199 passports and 227 travel destinations including micro-states and territories. India stands at 86th position in this index with a mobility score of 58. India shares […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":3337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-3336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3338,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3336\/revisions\/3338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3336"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=3336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u2022 South Korea now sits in second place on the index along\nwith Finland and Germany, with citizens of all three countries having access to\n187 destinations around the world without a prior visa.
\n\u2022 Denmark, Italy, and Luxembourg hold 3rd place, while France\nhas dropped to 4th place, sharing this position with Spain and Sweden.
\n\u2022 The UK and the US now share 6th place, along with Belgium,\nCanada, Greece, Ireland, and Norway.
\n\u2022 Earlier in 2018 rankings India was on 79th position and now\nsecured 86th. India\u2019s mobility score is 58 that mean that Indian\npassport holders can access 58 countries around the world without a prior visa.
\n\u2022 The UK and the US now share sixth place, the lowest\nposition either has held since 2010. The pair was top of the list in 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n