{"id":600801,"date":"2023-01-24T18:52:59","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T00:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/24\/how-powerful-is-your-countrys-passport-in-2023\/"},"modified":"2023-01-24T18:52:59","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T00:52:59","slug":"how-powerful-is-your-countrys-passport-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/24\/how-powerful-is-your-countrys-passport-in-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"How powerful is your country’s passport in 2023?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For the fourth year in a row, Japan and Singapore have the most powerful passports in the world. Nationals from these two east Asian countries can travel to 193 countries and territories out of a possible 227 without obtaining a visa, according to an annual ranking issued by consultancy\u00a0Henley & Partners<\/a><\/span>, which uses data from the International Air Transport Association.<\/p>\n

At the bottom of the list, below countries like Syria, Yemen, and North Korea, is Afghanistan, where citizens can only pay a visa-free visit to 27 other countries. Several states severed ties with the war-torn nation after the Taliban took control in 2021.<\/p>\n

Analysts from Henley & Partners found a strong correlation<\/a><\/span> between a nation\u2019s passport strength and economic power. The top-ranking Japanese passport gives access to 85% of the world, which collectively makes up 98% of the global economic output. The report contrasts that with last-ranked Afghanistan, which only allows visa-free access to 12% of the world, countries that make up less than 1% of the global economy.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Passport rankings<\/h2>\n

<\/a>Where can Russians travel to?<\/h2>\n

Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine has arguably been the most significant geopolitical event of the past year, one whose repercussions were felt across industries, including travel. While the Russian passport only declined one spot from the 2022 Henley & Partner\u2019s list<\/a><\/span>, travel for Russian nationals has been limited for a number of other reasons. <\/p>\n

The EU closed its airspace to any Russian airline at the onset of the war, while the relative weakness of the ruble has made traveling abroad a more expensive endeavor. Then in September, the European Commission accused<\/a><\/span> Russia of \u201cdemonstrating a complete disregard to the international rules-based order\u201d and said it would\u00a0suspended a landmark 2007 travel agreement<\/a><\/span> in response to Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, effectively making the process of traveling into the EU lengthier and more expensive.<\/p>\n

That month, the Baltic states, Finland, and Poland\u2014the only EU countries part of the visa-free travel Schengen area that share land borders with Russia\u2014closed their borders<\/a><\/span> to Russian nationals, while Slovakia and Czechia later announced they won\u2019t be issuing humanitarian visas to Russians looking to flee conscription.<\/p>\n

Russian passport holders are eligible for conscription, a fate hundreds of thousands of people<\/a><\/span>\u00a0have tried to avoid. Russia has also been accused of weaponizing passports in occupied areas of Ukraine by forcibly issuing documents and making it difficult to renew or obtain Ukrainian citizenship. Ukraine has said that this<\/a><\/span> practice is in violation of the Geneva convention and constitutes a war crime.<\/p>\n

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\n Diego Lasarte<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the fourth year in a row, Japan and Singapore have the most powerful passports in the world. Nationals from these two east Asian countries can travel to 193 countries and territories out of a possible 227 without obtaining a visa, according to an annual ranking issued by consultancy\u00a0Henley & Partners, which uses data from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":600802,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1817,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-600801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-countrys","category-powerful"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}