This year's champions of the “Henley Passport Index 2025” prepared by Henley & Partners were Singapore and Japan.

Henley & Partners has published the “Passport Index 2025”, which ranks the world's most powerful passports according to the official data of the International Air Transport Association (IATA). According to this year's index, Singapore's passport, which allows visa-free travel to 195 countries, once again ranked first as the world's most powerful passport, followed by Japan, which allows visa-free travel to 193 countries.

France, Germany, Italy and Spain fell two places to third place. These countries are in the same order as Finland and South Korea, which lost one place each in the last 12 months and now offer visa-free access to 192 destinations. A group of seven European Union countries - Austria, Denmark, Ireland, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden - share 4th place with visa-free access to 191 destinations. Belgium, New Zealand, Portugal, Switzerland, Switzerland and the United Kingdom are in 5th place with visa-free access to 190 destinations. Turkey, on the other hand, jumped 6 places in the index compared to the same period last year, becoming the 46th most powerful passport in the world.

At the other end of the mobility spectrum, Afghanistan remains at the bottom of the Henley Passport Index. The country lost visa-free access to two more destinations last year, the largest mobility gap in the index's 19-year history.

In the top 10 of the index, Australia ranks 6th, Canada 7th and the United States 9th. The top 10 is largely dominated by European countries, with the exception of the United Arab Emirates, which is the first and only Arab state to move up the rankings and take 10th place. The United Arab Emirates is one of the countries that has risen the most in the index over the last 10 years, gaining access to 72 more destinations since 2015 and ranked 10th with visa-free access to 185 destinations worldwide. In contrast, China also stands out as one of the biggest risers of the last 10 years. Ranked 94th in 2015, the country moved up to 60th in 2025, increasing the number of destinations it provides visa-free access to by 40 in the process.