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Where can your passport get you? In the last couple of months, we’ve covered passport rankings by companies such as VisaGuide and Arnot Capital, and now another one has just dropped.
It’s the first Henley Passport Index of 2025, a comprehensive ranking of 199 different passports across 227 travel destinations, and one country has retained the crown as the world’s most powerful.
It’s (drum roll, please…) Singapore, which continues to offer passport holders visa-free access to a whopping 195 destinations across the planet.
Japan is in second place, breaking away from the likes of France, Germany, Italy and Spain (which are now accompanied by Finland and South Korea in joint third place, with access to 192 destinations) thanks to the fact it gained one more destination where citizens can enter visa-free.
The full report can be viewed here, but read on for all the countries which have claimed a place in the top 10.
These are the world’s most powerful passports in 2025
- Singapore
- Japan
- Finland, France, Germany, Italy, South Korea, Spain
- Austria, Denmark, Ireland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden
- Belgium, New Zealand, Portugal, Switzerland, United Kingdom
- Australia, Greece
- Canada, Malta, Poland
- Czechia, Hungary
- Estonia, United States
- Latvia, Lithuania, Slovenia, United Arab Emirates
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