Passports enable holders access to almost all the world without the need for a visa.

From Euronews, the latest Henley Passport Index Singapore has been recrowned as the country with the world’s most powerful passport in 2024.

The city-state moves ahead of a pack of countries that were sharing the top spot at the start of the year; France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and Spain have all dropped to second place, each with access to 192 countries sans visa.

“The general trend over the past two decades has been towards greater travel freedom, with the global average number of destinations travellers are able to access visa-free nearly doubling from 58 in 2006 to 111 in 2024,” comments Dr Christian H. Kaelin, the Henley & Partners chairman who pioneered the passport index concept.