Canadian passport ranked eighth most powerful in the world

Highlights about Canadian passport

• The Henley Passport Index releases Canada passport that holds the eighth most highly ranked passport in the world.
• Japan ranked as the highest ranked country on Henley Passport Index with a 193 score.
• The overall score of a passport is equivalent to the number of destinations, which means no visa is required.
• Using data from the International Air Transport Authority (IATA), the Henley Passport Index compares and releases the data of 199 passports for 227 destinations and provides a ranking up to 112th considering global mobility.

Henley Passport Index

Canadian passport holds the eighth highest ranked passport in the world. Based on the Henley Passport Index second quarter on the rankings of countries in the world, Canada's passport ranked almost equal to the Czech Republic, Australia, Malta, and Greece, and these countries ranked 185 on the index.

Japan top-ranked the Index with a 193 score. South Korea and Singapore ranked second in position with a 192 score, whereas Italy and Germany possess a score of 190 ranking in the third position.

Belgium, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland, and the United States stood out in the seventh position in the rankings with 186 scores. With just one single point less, Canada stood at eighth position.

With the lowest 27 points, the Afghanistan passport secured a disputable ranking of 112, which is considered the last rank. Syria and Iraq couldn't beat the score of Afghanistan to become the worst passport. Iraq's score is 29 and the Syrian passport scored 30.

History of Henley Passport Index

The Henley Passport Index releases rankings of a quarter are the data of a 17-year-old use from the International Air Transport Authority (IATA) analyses around 199 passports for 227 travel destinations and provided rankings for the top 112 countries which reflected global portability that is afforded by the passports of the nations.

The final score for every passport is identical to the number of destinations that do not require a visa.

Strength of Canadian passport

Canada features in the world's powerful passports list among the countries worldwide, which offers visa-free access to Canadian citizens, which is considered as quantification of the freedom of citizens of the country to the 185 destinations.

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In the year 2014, Canadian passports stood in the second spot in the Henley Index released data. Then it slipped to sixth position in 2016. During the pandemic, due to many public health restrictions and limited travel to destinations, Canada's rank dropped to eight from the sixth position.

Since last year, though there were few disturbances, the Canadian passport has reached the eighth spot, and so far it is holding steady there.

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Canada Passport: Visa-Free Travel Countries
Afghanistan	Congo (Dem. Rep.)	Honduras	Montenegro	Slovakia
Albania	Congo (Rep.)	Hong Kong (SAR China)	Montserrat	Slovenia
Algeria	Cook Islands	Hungary	Morocco	Solomon Islands
American Samoa	Costa Rica	Iceland	Mozambique	Somalia
Andorra	Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast)	India	Myanmar	South Africa
Angola	Croatia	Indonesia	Namibia	South Korea
Anguilla	Cuba	Iran	Nauru	South Sudan
Antigua and Barbuda	Curacao	Iraq	Nepal	Spain
Argentina	Cyprus	Ireland	Netherlands	Sri Lanka
Armenia	Czech Republic	Israel	New Caledonia	St. Helena
Aruba	Denmark	Italy	New Zealand	St. Kitts and Nevis
Australia	Djibouti	Jamaica	Nicaragua	St. Lucia
Austria	Dominica	Japan	Niger	St. Maarten
Azerbaijan	Dominican Republic	Jordan	Nigeria	St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Bahamas	Ecuador	Kazakhstan	Niue	Sudan
Bahrain	Egypt	Kenya	North Korea	Suriname
Bangladesh	El Salvador	Kiribati	North Macedonia	Sweden
Barbados	Equatorial Guinea	Kosovo	Northern Mariana Islands	Switzerland
Belarus	Eritrea	Kuwait	Norway	Syria
Belgium	Estonia	Kyrgyzstan	Oman	Taiwan
Belize	Eswatini (Swaziland)	Laos	Pakistan	Tajikistan
Benin	Ethiopia	Latvia	Palau Islands	Tanzania
Bermuda	Falkland Islands	Lebanon	Palestinian Territory	Thailand
Bhutan	Faroe Islands	Lesotho	Panama	Timor-Leste
Bolivia	Fiji	Liberia	Papua New Guinea	Togo
Bonaire; St. Eustatius and Saba	Finland	Libya	Paraguay	Tonga
Bosnia and Herzegovina	France	Liechtenstein	Peru	Trinidad and Tobago
Botswana	French Guiana	Lithuania	Philippines	Tunisia
Brazil	French Polynesia	Luxembourg	Poland	Turkey
British Virgin Islands	French West Indies	Macao (SAR China)	Portugal	Turkmenistan
Brunei	Gabon	Madagascar	Puerto Rico	Turks and Caicos Islands
Bulgaria	Gambia	Malawi	Qatar	Tuvalu
Burkina Faso	Georgia	Malaysia	Reunion	Uganda
Burundi	Germany	Maldives	Romania	Ukraine
Cambodia	Ghana	Mali	Russian Federation	United Arab Emirates
Cameroon	Gibraltar	Malta	Rwanda	United Kingdom
Canada	Greece	Marshall Islands	Samoa	United States
Cape Verde Islands	Greenland	Mauritania	San Marino	Uruguay
Cayman Islands	Grenada	Mauritius	Sao Tome and Principe	US Virgin Islands
Central African Republic	Guam	Mayotte	Saudi Arabia	Uzbekistan
Chad	Guatemala	Mexico	Senegal	Vanuatu
Chile	Guinea	Micronesia	Serbia	Vatican City
China	Guinea-Bissau	Moldova	Seychelles	Venezuela
Colombia	Guyana	Monaco	Sierra Leone	Vietnam
Comores Islands	Haiti	Mongolia	Singapore	Yemen
				Zambia
				Zimbabwe

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