For the 5th directly year, the Japanese passport is the maximum effective amongst all passports withinside the world, because it lets in visa-unfastened get entry to to as many as 193 nations, in step with Henley Passport Index 2023. India, on the alternative hand, stepped forward its function through 2 spots from closing year, and is presently ranked eighty fifth at the index.
A holder of an Indian passport can journey visa-unfastened to fifty nine nations (60 in 2022); Mauritanian and Uzbekistan passports are as effective as that of India.
Passports of those nations keep the pinnacle 10 spots at the Henley Index:
1. Japan 193
2. Singapore, South Korea 192
3. Germany, Spain 190
4. Finland, Italy, Luxembourg 189
5. Austria, Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden 188
6. France, Ireland, Portugal, United Kingdom 187
7. Belgium, Czech Republic, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland, United States 186
8. Australia, Canada, Greece, Malta 185
9. Hungary, Poland 184
10. Lithuania, Slovakia 183
85. India, Mauritania, Uzbekistan fifty nine
Passports of those nations keep the lowest 10 spots at the Henley Index:
109. Afghanistan 27
108. Iraq 29
107. Syria 30
106. Pakistan 32
105. Yemen 34
104. Somalia 35
103. Nepal, Palestinian Territory 38
102. North Korea 40
101. Bangladesh, Kosovo, Libya 41
100. Democratic Republic of Congo, Lebanon, Sri Lanka, Sudan 42
Henley Passport Index
Invented almost two decades in the past through Dr Christian H Kaelin, Chairman, Henley & Partners, the index is primarily based totally at the different and reliable information from the International Air Transport Association (IATA). It is the unique rating of all of the passports in step with the variety of locations their holders can go to with out a previous visa.