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.
The 5th place with an index of 175 is occupied by 6 countries at once: Norway, Czech Republic, Great Britain, Hungary, Japan, New Zealand.
In 4th place (176) were Denmark, Belgium, Portugal, Poland, Ireland, South Korea.
The top three (177) were Sweden, Finland, Luxembourg, Austria and Switzerland. Second place with a score of 178 went to Germany, Spain, France, Italy and the Netherlands. Finally, the United Arab Emirates topped the ranking, with the passport of this state can enter without problems in 180 countries around the world, in 131 of them without a visa at all.
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With a passport of the Russian Federation in 2024 it is possible to travel to 128 countries without difficulties (82 without a visa). Ukraine has a much higher mobility score, ranking 21st with a score of 150. The neighboring Republic of Belarus ranked 53rd with an index of 92. One rank lower is Kazakhstan (91).
Kyrgyzstan's mobility index for this year is 75, Uzbekistan's is 74, and Tajikistan's is 72.
Georgia has a good result with an index of 132. Neighboring Armenia and Azerbaijan are doing worse: 83 and 84 respectively.
Expectedly, Iraq (43), Afghanistan (41) and Syria (40) have the weakest passports in the world.
