If you have citizenship in Sweden, you have a great deal of traveling power — Swedes can fly to 187 countries without a visa. This makes international travel cheaper and easier than it is for citizens of many other countries. Citizens of Afghanistan can fly to just 30 countries without a visa.
These stark differences are revealed in the Passport Index, which ranks countries based on the number of nations where residents can enter without a visa or obtain a visa on arrival. The citizenship planning firm Henley & Partners compiled government data from 200 nations, territories, and microstates to create the 2018 ranking, which the company updated this week.
Here are the 21 countries with the highest-ranking passports. Many of these nations are tied, which is why we start at #5.
