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The Emirates have also climbed the Index the most over the past decade, adding an impressive 106 destinations to their visa-on-arrival list since 2014.
The UAE passport has strengthened over the past year, rising two places to 11th place, providing visa-free access to 183 countries, according to Henley & Partner’s Passport Index 2024 published on Wednesday.
The United Arab Emirates also continued to be the Index’s biggest climber over the past decade, adding an impressive 106 destinations to its visa-free score since 2014, resulting in a massive 44-place jump in the ranking, from position 55 to 11.
Travel with UAE passport in the last 10 years:
| YEAR | CLASSIFICATION |
| 2014 | 55 |
| 2015 | 42 |
| 2016 | 38 |
| 2017 | 38 |
| 2018 | twenty-one |
| 2019 | fifteen |
| 2020 | 18 |
| 2021 | sixteen |
| 2022 | fifteen |
| 2023 | 13 |
| 2024 | eleven |
Fountain: Henley and partners
Passport holders from Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman and Saudi Arabia have visa-free access to 108, 102, 91, 90 and 89 countries respectively.
Afghanistan (104), Syria (103), Iraq (102), Pakistan (101) and Yemen (100) ranked at the bottom of Henley & Partner’s 2024 passport index.
Bangladesh was ranked 97th, moving up one position, while India’s passport was ranked 80th, moving up three positions.
The index is based on exclusive and official data from the International Air Transport Association (Iata).
Globally, four European countries (France, Germany, Italy and Spain) have joined Japan and Singapore in boasting the world’s most powerful passports, and their citizens can visit a staggering 194 destinations out of 227 worldwide. without visa.
The two Asian nations have dominated the top spot in the index (which ranks all the world’s passports by the number of destinations their holders can access without a prior visa) for the past five years.
Dr. Christian H. Kaelin, President of Henley & Partnerssaid the global mobility gap between those at the top and bottom of the index is now wider than ever.
“The average number of destinations that travelers can access visa-free has almost doubled from 58 in 2006 to 111 in 2024. However, as we enter the new year, the top-ranked countries can now travel to the astonishing number of 166 more destinations. -free than Afghanistan, which is at the bottom of the ranking with access to only 28 countries without a visa”,
saying kaelin.
News Source: Khaleej Times
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