List of most powerful passports in Africa. The gap in travel freedom is its biggest in decades and disparities in vaccination access between countries could make the situation even worse, says a new report.
The Henley Passport Index, which has been regularly monitoring the world’s most travel-friendly passports since 2006, has released its latest rankings and analysis.
As the index doesn’t take temporary restrictions into account, Japan is once again top of the leaderboard, with its passport offering visa-free or visa-on-arrival access to 193 destinations around the world.
“With extensive travel restrictions still in place globally, any level of international travel freedom remains theoretical,” says Henley & Partners, the UK-based citizenship consultancy behind the index, in a statement.
“It is somewhat ironic that Japan is ranked first, yet recently made the difficult decision to bar spectators from abroad from the rescheduled Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020, now planned to commence in July.”
Japanese passport holders have visa-free or visa-on-arrival access to 167 more destinations than citizens of Afghanistan, who are at the bottom of the ranking as they can only visit 26 places without needing a visa in advance. That’s the biggest gap between countries since the index began, says Henley & Partners. most powerful passports in Africa
The best passports to hold in Africa in 2021 are:
- Seychelles 🇸🇨 (152 destinations)
- Mauritius 🇲🇺 (146) *AfCFTA member Country
- South Africa 🇿🇦 (103) *AfCFTA member Country
- Botswana 🇧🇼 (86)
- Namibia 🇳🇦 (78) *AfCFTA member Country
- Lesotho 🇱🇸 (77) *AfCFTA member Country
- eSwatini 🇸🇿 (74) *AfCFTA member Country
- Malawi 🇲🇼 (73) *AfCFTA member Country
- Kenya 🇰🇪 (72) *AfCFTA member Country
- Tanzania 🇹🇿 (72)
- Tunisia 🇹🇳 (72) *AfCFTA member Country
- Zambia 🇿🇲 (71) *AfCFTA member Country
* African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) (full member countries) The AfCFTA is a free trade area founded in 2018, with trade commencing as of 1 January 2021.It was created by the African Continental Free Trade Agreement among 54 of the 55 African Union nations. The free-trade area is the largest in the world in terms of the number of participating countries since the formation of the World Trade Organization. Accra, Ghana serves as the Secretariat of AfCFTA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Continental_Free_Trade_Area
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