People with a Vietnamese passport enjoy free entry or are just required an e-visa or a visa on arrival to 55 countries and territories globally. (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam’s passport climbed fourspots to rank 88th among the most powerful passports in the world, according to thenewly-released Henley Passport Index 2023.
Accordingly, people with a Vietnamese passport enjoy free entry or are just required an e-visa or a visa on arrival to 55 countries and territoriesglobally.
Meanwhile, Japan’s passport is the most powerful one in theworld as Japanese passport holders can enter 193 destinations globally withouta visa. It is followed by Singapore and the Republic of Korea withfree entry into 192 destinations, and Germany and Spain shared the third place with free access to 190destinations.
The passports of Finland, Austria, Italy, and Luxembourgranked fourth in the index as people with those passports can enter 189destinations without applying for a visa.
In contrast, the world’s weakest passports include those of Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Nepal, and the DemocraticPeople's Republic of Korea as passport holders from these nations are only ableto visit between 27 and 40 other countries and territories without visas.
The Henley Passport Index is the original, authoritativeranking of all the world’s passports according to the number of destinationstheir holders can access without a prior visa. The index is based on exclusivedata from the International Air Transport Association (IATA) – the largest, mostaccurate travel information database – and enhanced by Henley & Partners’research team.
Surveys are made for 199 passports and 227 countries andterritories globally, updated every quarter. For each visa-free destination,that country's passport will be awarded one point./.
