By Admin 
Henley Passport Index, an organization that ranks passports of powerful countries around the world, has released the list of passport rankings for 2025. After the arrival of this report, America has suffered a big shock. According to statistics, the American passport has been out of the list of top-10 most powerful passports in the world for the first time in 20 years.
In this report, Singapore’s passport has been ranked first, while India’s has made continuous improvement after a few years of decline. America, which was once on the first position in the list of passports, has now declined to 12th position and is tied with Malaysia. Both countries have visa-free or visa-on-arrival access to 180 countries. In the year 2024, America was at 7th place in this list.
Singapore won first place in the report
According to Henley Report, Singapore has visa-free or visa-on-arrival facility among 193 countries, due to which this country has been given the top position. After this, South Korea is at second place and Japan is at third place, which has access to 190 countries. Along with this, European countries like Switzerland, Luxembourg, Germany, Italy, Spain etc. have been placed at fourth position.
This time India has got a good position in the ranking. India has been ranked 85th in the report, where it has visa-free or visa-on-arrival access to 59 countries. This is considered a good ranking for India. After the Covid-19 pandemic, India’s ranking had fallen to 90th rank. However, India got 84th position in this ranking in the year 2023 and 80th position in 2024.
Pakistan got this place in the ranking
According to this report of Henley Passport Index 2025, India’s neighboring country Pakistan has been ranked 103rd, which has visa-free or visa-on-arrival access to 31 countries. Last year in 2024, Pakistan’s passport was ranked 101st, which means Pakistan has registered a decline in this ranking.
Why did the United States fall down in the rankings?
Over the past few years, the US has limited efforts to expand visa-free travel agreements. At the same time, other countries (like Singapore, Japan, South Korea) have made such agreements with many countries, due to which their citizens are getting the facility of visa-free travel. At the same time, America has also had political and diplomatic tensions with many countries, such as China, Russia, Iran, and some African nations. For this reason, those countries have also increased travel restrictions or visa difficulties on American citizens.
The US imposed stringent travel restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic and gradually relaxed some restrictions even after the pandemic, while other countries increasingly flexed their policies. Due to this, America’s passport proved to be less weak than other countries.
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