A passport ranking that measures
where you can want to go.

Traditional rankings count visa-free countries. This one weights each destination by its annual tourism volume – so a passport that opens France (100M visitors a year) outscores one that opens a quieter country with the same number of stamps.

Strongest passport

🇰🇷South Korea

Unlocks 1.4 billion tourists' worth of world. Honestly, the top ten is a tie between rich East Asia and the Nordics – same metric, same lifestyle, same passport: small countries that quietly out-travel everyone.

Most welcoming

🇲🇻Maldives

Lets in nearly every nationality on Earth without a pre-issued visa. The richest tourist destination that holds the door open for everyone, not just the wealthy West.

Runners-up: 🇷🇼 Rwanda · 🇰🇪 Kenya

Weakest passport

🇵🇰Pakistan

Reaches destinations worth just 28M tourists a year – 51× less than the top passport. Afghanistan gets called the world's worst, but it slips into visa-free Macau; Pakistan can't, which is why the weighted map puts Pakistan last.

Runners-up: 🇳🇬 Nigeria · 🇧🇩 Bangladesh

Most overlooked

🇧🇮Burundi

Open to almost every passport on Earth – and almost nobody comes. About 50K visitors a year, against 100M for France. Easy to enter, rarely visited.

Runners-up: 🇰🇲 Comoros · 🇫🇲 Micronesia

One-way passport

🇺🇸United States

Americans walk into 160 countries without a visa. The U.S. itself lets in just 46 nationalities the same way – the widest one-way street in passport diplomacy.

Runners-up: 🇦🇺 Australia · 🇨🇦 Canada

Biggest 2026 shift

🇨🇳China ↑

Quietly opened visa-free travel to seven new countries this year – UK, Canada, and five Gulf states. Roughly 455M tourist-arrivals' worth of new mobility, the largest single expansion of 2026.

Also opening: 🇮🇳 India ↑ · Also closing: 🇳🇦 Namibia ↓