SA Passport drops two spots on Henley Passport Index
South Africa’s passport energy has taken a nosedive, in line with the newest Henley Passport Index, which revealed the most recent rankings of all the world’s passports for 2025.
The Henley Passport Index is the unique, authoritative rating of all of the world’s passports in line with the variety of locations their passport-holders can journey to visa-free.
“With historic information spanning 19 years, the Henley Passport Index is the one one in all its form primarily based on unique information from the Worldwide Air Transport Authority (IATA). The index contains 199 completely different passports and 227 completely different journey locations.” Henley & Companions says.
And now, in line with these rankings, South Africa’s passport has dropped down two spots from its earlier place at 47, now rating at quantity 49 on the checklist of 199 passports.
Regardless of this, nevertheless, the index highlighted that South Africans can nonetheless journey to 104 locations with out requiring a visa.
The highest passports of the world
Listed below are is the up to date checklist of the highest 5 strongest passports:
| Rank | Nation | Variety of visa-free nations |
| 1 | Singapore | 193 |
| 2 | Japan | 190 |
| 2 | South Korea | 190 |
| 3 | Denmark | 189 |
| 3 | Finland | 189 |
| 3 | France | 189 |
| 3 | Germany | 189 |
| 3 | Eire | 189 |
| 3 | Italy | 189 |
| 3 | Spain | 189 |
| 4 | Austria | 188 |
| 4 | Belgium | 188 |
| 4 | Luxembourg | 188 |
| 4 | Netherlands | 188 |
| 4 | Norway | 188 |
| 4 | Portugal | 188 |
| 4 | Sweden | 188 |
| 5 | Greece | 187 |
| 5 | New Zealand | 187 |
| 5 | Switzerland | 187 |
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