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    Top 10 most and least powerful passports based on mobility scores in 2025: Where does India stand?

    berealnewsBy berealnewsSeptember 8, 2025No Comments4 Mins Read
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    Global Passport Power Ranking 2025: Passport power is used to denote the diplomatic power of a country and the global mobility that the country provides its citizens so that they can travel in a freer manner around the globe. Global Passport Power Rank 2025 has shown the most and the least powerful passports on the basis of the mobility scores.

    The United Arab Emirates kept its first position with the same rank as in 2024 and ranked sixth in the list with a mobility score of 179.

    As most of the top passports experienced a minimal decline in their mobility ratings, Asian nations gained a lot this year.

    The Singaporean passport improved, changing its sixth place in 2024 to number 2 in 2025 and shares the rank with Spain, but lost three destinations that are now subject to a visa.

    South Korea and Japan have increased to position three and four respectively, as compared to fourth and 5th positions respectively, the previous year.

    In the meantime, the most popular European passports, such as France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Austria, and Switzerland, fell a couple of notches with mobility scores no longer being 178, but 174.

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    The United Kingdom and the United States also dropped out of the list but they only occupy 8 th and 9 th positions. The UK was rated at 169 versus 174 and the US was at 168 versus 173.

    The weakest passports again were held by Afghanistan and Syria at the bottom of the rankings. They have changed places this year with Afghanistan being ranked 102 nd and Syria stands at 101 st.

    Top 10 most powerful passports in the world 2025:

    RankCountryMobility Score (MS)Visa-FreeVisa on ArrivalVisa Required
    1United Arab Emirates1791334619
    2Singapore1751373823
    Spain1751314423
    3Belgium1741264824
    France1741264824
    Germany1741264824
    Netherlands1741264824
    Finland1741264824
    Luxembourg1741264824
    Italy1741264824
    Denmark1741254924
    Portugal1741254924
    Switzerland1741245024
    Greece1741245024
    Austria1741235124
    Norway1741225224
    Ireland1741215324
    South Korea1741245024
    4Sweden1731304325
    Poland1731294425
    Hungary1731284525
    Japan1731244925
    5Czech Republic1721274526
    Croatia1721274526
    Slovakia1721274526
    Estonia1721264626
    New Zealand1721215126
    6Malta1711304127
    Slovenia1711274427
    Latvia1711254627
    Liechtenstein1711215027
    7Romania1701254528
    Lithuania1701244628
    Bulgaria1701244628
    Malaysia1701234728
    Iceland1701214928
    Australia1701165428
    8Cyprus1691284129
    United Kingdom1691234629
    Canada1691214829
    9United States of America1681194930
    10Monaco1661165032

    Source: 2025 PASSPORT INDEX (passportindex.org)

    Bottom 10 least powerful passports in the world 2025:

    RankCountryMobility Score (MS)Visa-FreeVisa on ArrivalVisa Required
    102Afghanistan3862162
    101Syria39930159
    100Iraq441133154
    Somalia441232154
    99Pakistan451233153
    98Yemen461234152
    97Palestinian Territories491435149
    96Eritrea501337148
    Bangladesh501931148
    95North Korea511239147

    Source: 2025 PASSPORT INDEX (passportindex.org)

    Where Does Indian Passport stand?

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    The passport of India has been ranked 73rd in the world along with Ghana and Gambia. The 30 countries are visa free and 44 are visa on arrival and 124 are visa before traveling.

    India has fallen in the ranking and its mobility score has also stayed quite steady since it was able to enter 30 countries without a visa, 44 countries with a visa-on-arrival, and 124 countries with a visa.

    What is the Passport Ranking Index and How it Works?

    Henley Passport Index – Henley and Partners is a world leader founded in 1997 in ranking the world passports based on the number of destinations that their holders can visit without prior visa. The Henley Passport Index is a comparison of the visa free access of 199 passports to 227 traveling destinations.

    Global Passport Power Rank – According to Arton Capital, Passport Index which is a creation of 2014 is known as the reliable source of information regarding passport power in the entire world. It consists of 199 passports which are ranked in terms of their Mobility Score (MS).

    Indian Passport Ranking in 2025

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    In the case of passports people either consider it as their entrance to the whole world or the restriction to their freedom of going around. Passport Ranking has the system in which the passport of a specific country is ranked based on how many countries their holders are allowed to visit without having to seek a visa.

    As stated earlier we use two large indices of this data and they are The Henley Passport Index and The Global Passport Index.

    The calculation used to determine both the indices is different and this is why the ranking varies. The two indices take into account the visa access of the Indian passport to 199 countries.

    For Henely Passport Index:

    The passport is awarded 1 in instances where:

    No visa is required

    VOA is provided.

    Visitor permit or,

    There is an electronic travel authority (ETA).

    A 0 score is given when the passport holder would need to apply an e-visa to the countries that provide an e-visa to Indians, or when he or she needs a compulsory visa before he or she could depart. On the same note, no score is provided when pre-departure approval by the government is required in visa-on-arrival countries in case of Indians.

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    For Global Passport Index:

    The ranking of individual passport is estimated by use of a three tiers approach:

    Mobility Score (MS): This incorporates visa-free (VF), visa on arrival (VOA), eTA and e-visa (when issued with 3 days)

    Part of their score that is Visa Free versus Visa-on-Arrival.

    A tiebreaker is the United Nations Development Programme Human development index 2018 (UNDP HDI).

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