Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nPrepared by Henley and Partners, a London-based global\ncitizenship and residence advisory firm, the Henley Passport Index claims to be\nthe \u201coriginal ranking of all the world\u2019s passports\u201d. The index gathers data\nfrom the International Air Transport Association (IATA) that manages\ninter-airline cooperation globally. The Henley Passport Index is updated in\nreal time according to countries\u2019 visa policy changes. It covers 227\ndestinations and 199 passports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The index receives data from the IATA on a fixed day every\nyear that forms the basis of the index. This data is supplemented by accounting\nfor real-time changes in visa policies using publicly available sources to\nprepare a visa list, which is a list of destinations that a passport can access\nvisa-free, through a visa on arrival, e-visa or with a traditional visa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Each passport is attributed with a score and a rank. For\ninstance for 2019, India\u2019s score is 58 and it ranks 86 in the list. Japan and\nSingapore, on the other hand, are ranked 1 and have a score of 189.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The score is the sum of the number of countries accessible\nby that passport holder without requiring pre-departure government approval for\nvisa-types including a visitor\u2019s permit, visa on arrival or an electronic\ntravel authority (ETA). For every territory\/country that a passport holder of a\nparticular country\/territory is able to access through these visa-types\n(without pre-departure government approval), a value of 1 is attributed to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A value of 0 is attributed to a score when a passport holder\nhas to seek pre-departure government approval for visa-types including e-visa\n(visas applied for online and received) and visa on arrival. Therefore, the\ntotal score becomes the sum total for all the values of 1. For instance, a\npassport holder from Singapore and Japan can travel to 189\ncountries\/territories without requiring pre-departure government approval.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What does this mean\nfor Indian passport holders?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nIndia has a score of 58. That is the number of destinations\nan Indian passport holder can travel to today, without pre-departure government\napproval. That is the same as a citizen of any country, on an average, could\ntravel to 13 years ago. \u201cIn 2006, a citizen, on an average, could travel to 58\ndestinations without needing a visa from the host nation; by 2018, this number\nhad nearly doubled to 107,\u201d Henley and Partners noted in the Global Mobility\nReport, released in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Afghanistan holds the weakest passport, with a score and\nranking of 25 and 109, respectively. Syria and Pakistan follow with rankings of\n107 and 106 and scores of 29 and 30, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Passport rankings point towards the strength of diplomatic\nrelations between countries. In the past decade travel freedom has expanded\nvastly as a result of the rising number of bilateral visa-waiver programmes\nsigned between different countries and unilateral decisions implemented by\ngovernments of some countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The latest Henley Passport Index ranks India at 86, down five places from 81 in 2018. The index ranks passports based on their power and mobility. Last year, an Indian passport holder had visa-free access to 60 countries; this year, she has access to 58. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 Prepared by Henley and Partners, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":5369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[609],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-5368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles","tag-passport-index"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5368","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=5368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5370,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5368\/revisions\/5370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5368"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=5368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}