2025 Powerful Passport Rankings ： Who Rose, Who Fell?

Source: OT-Team(G), Henley Passport Index

The Henley Passport Index has released its latest global passport rankings for 2025.

The list is created by Henley & Partners, a London-based global citizenship and residence advisory firm. Using data from the International Air Transport Association (IATA), the list ranks the passports of 199 countries and their ability to travel to 227 possible destinations.    

Singapore is once again at the top of the newly released edition of the Henley Passport Index.

Although Singapore remains the the most powerful passport, the number of visa-free countries its citizens can enter has gone from 195 to 193.

Japan and South Korea came in second place with 190 destinations (down from 193 and 192, respectively).

Seven countries came in joint third place with visa-free access to 189 destinations (each down two or three points): Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, and Spain.

With the exception of the United Arab Emirates and Croatia, every other country in the top 10 spots has dropped in the rankings since January 2025, including the United States.

The United States came in tenth with access to 182 destinations (down from 186). The United States was once number one on the index, in 2014. "Notably, the U.S. is now on the brink of exiting the Top 10 altogether for the first time in the index's 20-year history," stated an accompanying press release for the July 2025 edition of the Henley Global Mobility Report.

India recorded the largest jump this time, climbing eight spots to 77th place, while Henley & Partners in the release also emphasized China's ongoing ascent from 94th to 60th position since 2015.

China's rise "has been assisted by its significant move towards greater openness," the firm said, noting that the country "has granted visa-free access to over a dozen new passports since January" in what it calls "a remarkable shift considering it allowed visa-free entry to fewer than 20 countries just five years ago."

There's a wide gap between access offered at the top versus the bottom of the list.     

Afghanistan is currently last in the rankings, at 99th place, since its passport holders get access to 25 destinations.     

Syria and Iraq ranked only slightly higher, with access to 27 and 30 destinations, respectively.

Click the image to view the passport rankings.