Canada ranked 7th in the list of strongest passports
How many countries can citizens visit without a visa?
Arton Capital, an international financial advisory firm, has published its regular passport ranking. Every year, the passports of the world's countries are sorted according to their mobility score, i.e. the number of countries that let in the holders of this document under a simplified procedure: without a visa or with a visa on arrival.
Canada ranked 7th in the 2024 ranking, sharing it with 4 other countries — the mobility score of all five was 173. At the same time, Canada loses to its five rival countries:
- Malta — 127 countries can be entered without a visa, another 46 with a visa on arrival;
- Estonia and Lithuania — 125 countries can be entered without a visa, another 48 with a visa on arrival;
- Slovenia — 124 countries can be entered without a visa, another 49 with a visa on arrival;
- Canada — 123 countries can be entered without a visa, another 50 with a visa on arrival.
Passport holders of these five need a visa to travel to 25 countries.
So which countries will Canadians need a visa to visit? Here is a complete list:
Afghanistan, Algeria, Afghanistan, Benin, Bhutan, Cameroon, Chad, China, Congo, Central African Republic, Egypt, Eritrea, Iran, Liberia, Libya, Mali, Myanmar, Nauru, Niger, Russian Federation, North Korea, Sudan, Syria, Turkmenistan, Venezuela, Yemen.
Who's in the top?
The USA overtook Canada by one rank and placed in 6th position along with Australia and Slovakia. The index of all three countries totaled 174 with full visa-free travel to 124 countries in the case of Slovakia, 123 in the case of the US and 117 for Australia.
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