Africa-Press – Angola. Angola rose three places in the ranking of the most valuable passports in the world (Henley Passport Index 2022), rising from position 98 to 95, on a scale of 199 countries.
In statistics, passports from Japan, Singapore and South Korea are considered the most valuable in the world. In the sequence, countries such as Germany, Spain, Finland and Italy also stand out.
With 17-year historical data, the Henley Passport Index is the only one of its kind based on exclusive data from the International Air Transport Authority (IATA).
The index includes 199 different passports and 227 different travel destinations. Updated quarterly, the Henley Passport Index is considered the standard reference tool for global citizens and sovereign states when assessing a passport’s ranking on the global mobility spectrum.
However, the Nigerian passport was ranked 100th in this index which is published quarterly by Henley & Partners, a London-based global citizenship and residency consultancy.
It also compared visa-free access of 199 different passports to 227 travel destinations and ranked them based on global access and mobility.
The ranking is based on exclusive data from the International Air Transport Association, which maintains the largest and most accurate database of travel information in the world and had the Index show that Nigeria dropped one position as it ranked 99th in the index. Q2 2022 and below some African countries such as Ghana, Kenya, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Mali and Malawi, among others.
Three Asian countries, Japan, Singapore and South Korea were at the top of the table. With a Japanese passport, you can travel to 193 countries without a visa. While Nigeria had a visa waiver score of zero, which meant that with a Nigerian passport, a visa would be required to gain access to any country.
In a similar report by Henley & Partners, the Henley Global Mobility report, the group compared the Global Peace Index to the passport ranking, stating that the level of tranquility in a country also contributed to the country’s ranking position in the HPI. The report revealed a strong correlation between the two rankings.
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