PH improves to 74th in list of world’s most powerful passports

By MB Online

The Philippines has slightly improved its place in the latest world’s most powerful passport ranking.

According to the 2019 Henley Passport Index, the country ranked 74th, a point away from last year’s 75th, and has visa-free access to 66 countries, including visa on arrival and electronic travel authority.

Japan remained as the “world’s strongest” with visa-free access to 190 countries.

Singapore and South Korea shared second place with its passport holders allowed to visit 189 destinations visa-free.

France and Germany both earned third spot with access to 188 destinations visa-free.

Meanwhile, Iraq and Afghanistan still hit rock-bottom at 104th place with visa-free access to 30 countries only.

According to its website, the Henley Passport Index is a “ranking of all the passports of the world according to the number of countries their holders can travel to visa-free” based on exclusive data from the International Air Transport Association (IATA).

IATA maintains the world’s largest and most comprehensive database of travel information.