Henley Passport Index

Henley Passport Index
Type of site	Passport guidance
Available in	English, Chinese, French, Spanish, Arabic and Russian
Headquarters	London
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Owner	Henley & Partners
URL	www.henleypassportindex.com
Commercial	Yes
Registration	None
Launched	2005
Current status	Online

The Henley Passport Index is a global ranking of countries according to the travel freedom allowed by those countries' ordinary passports for their citizens.^[3] It started in 2006 as Henley & Partners Visa Restrictions Index^[4] and was changed and renamed in January 2018.^[5]

The index annually ranks 199 passports of the world by the number of countries that their holders can travel to without requiring a visa.^[6] The number of countries that a specific passport can access becomes its visa-free "score". In collaboration with the International Air Transport Association (IATA),^[7] and using official data from their global database, Henley & Partners has analysed the visa regulations of almost all the world's countries and territories since 2006.^[4]^[8]

^ Moore, Cortney (20 July 2022). "American passports rank as 7th most powerful, travel index says". Fox News.
^ O'Hare, Maureen (18 July 2023). "The world's most powerful passports for 2023". CNN.
^ Smith, Oliver (29 February 2016). "The world's most powerful passports". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 23 February 2017. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
^ ^a ^b Lmahamad, Ayya (11 January 2023). "Azerbaijan improves its position in World Passport Index". Azer News.
^ Andrejevic, Mark and Volcic, Zala (2016). Commercial Nationalism: Selling the Nation and Nationalizing the Sell. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. ISBN 9781137500984
^ Neammanee, Pocharapon; Lee, Lloyd (20 July 2022). "The most powerful passports in the world in 2022, ranked". Insider Inc. Retrieved 28 August 2022.
^ "How powerful is your country's passport in 2023?". Quartz. 24 January 2023.
^ Abrahamian, Atossa Araxia (2015). The Cosmopolites: The Coming of the Global Citizen, pp. 70–93. Colombia Global Reports, New York. ISBN 9780990976363

[secondary_fox-1] Moore, Cortney (20 July 2022). "American passports rank as 7th most powerful, travel index says". Fox News.

[2] O'Hare, Maureen (18 July 2023). "The world's most powerful passports for 2023". CNN.

[3] Smith, Oliver (29 February 2016). "The world's most powerful passports". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 23 February 2017. Retrieved 21 July 2018.

[tertiary_source_1-4] Lmahamad, Ayya (11 January 2023). "Azerbaijan improves its position in World Passport Index". Azer News.

[5] Andrejevic, Mark and Volcic, Zala (2016). Commercial Nationalism: Selling the Nation and Nationalizing the Sell. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. ISBN 9781137500984

[annual_ranking-6] Neammanee, Pocharapon; Lee, Lloyd (20 July 2022). "The most powerful passports in the world in 2022, ranked". Insider Inc. Retrieved 28 August 2022.

[7] "How powerful is your country's passport in 2023?". Quartz. 24 January 2023.

[8] Abrahamian, Atossa Araxia (2015). The Cosmopolites: The Coming of the Global Citizen, pp. 70–93. Colombia Global Reports, New York. ISBN 9780990976363

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