The ranking of passports published by the London consultant company Henley is created on the basis of The number of countries to which the owner of a given document can go without having to have a visa.
This year, Singapore can boast of the strongest passport in the world. Its citizens can visit 193 countries in the world without visas. The second place belongs to Japan and South Korea, whose inhabitants can enter 190 countries without applying for a visa.
The Polish document (seventh position on the list) allows visa -free entry to 185 countries. Australia, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Malta passports also give the same possibilities.
The Polish passport is systematically climbing in the rankings. Before a decade, he offered a visa -free entry to 114 countries, which gave him the ninth place in the world. In 2010, Poland reached the tenth place for the first time.
Whereas The American passport is weakening – emphasized the CBS News portal – it guarantees entry without visas to 182 countries. At the moment he is in 10th place in the ranking, along with Iceland and Lithuania. His position was the strongest in 2014, when he was considered the best such document in the world, but since then it has been systematically falling.
The creators of the report assess that the passport is no longer only a travel document, but a certificate reflecting the strength of diplomatic influence and international relations of a given country.
