Most powerful Passports in 2017

Globalization is part of our lives now. Big part of globization is the traveling to different countries either for leisure or business. The ease of global travel seems to depend more on where you come from than where you are going. Therefore a powerful passport can make your life easier if you are traveling to many countries in the world.

Here are the countries in the top 3 powerful ranked passports currently in Jan 2017.

Passport power ranked 1

• Germany 

Passport power ranked 2

• Singapore
• Sweden

Passport power ranked 3

• Denmark
• Finland
• France
• Spain
• Switzerland
• Norway
• United Kingdom
• United states of America

These ranking are devised by a global financial advisory firm Arton Capital

They based their rankings on:

1. Visa free and Visa free on arrival
2. Visa free vs Visa free on arrival
3.  United Nations Development Programme Human Development Index is used as a tie breaker 

So what does a powerful passport tell you?

This shows the current political and economical relationships of these countries with the world in 2017. The foreign policies these countries adopt affects their relationships. Germany ranked first, is currently one of the friendliest country in the world and they also have one of the most powerful economy which has alot of strong economic relationships with the world.

Article source: 

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/singapore-passport-is-second-most-powerful-in-the-world-index/3441162.html

https://www.passportindex.org/byRank.php

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