Top 20 Most Powerful Passports

The twenty strongest passports in the world are separated by just five destinations — Singapore reaches 195, and the United Kingdom, twentieth here, still reaches 190. The real gap sits below the table: the weakest passports open fewer than 30 destinations, more than 165 behind Singapore. The tie structure is easy to miss, too. Henley gives every country with the same score the same official rank, so these twenty passports occupy only five official positions — a passport listed at Henley rank five is nowhere near the fifth-best in the world. Only four non-European passports make the top twenty: Singapore, Japan, South Korea, and New Zealand.