The World’s Most Powerful & Best Passports in 2016| Check out India’s Ranking

The World’s Most Powerful & Best Passports

Passports are ranked by judging the number of times a citizen is travelling abroad without a visa i.e.”VISA FREE SCORE”. To know The World’s Most Powerful & Best Passports in 2016, go through this article. The more the passport is restricted, the less it is ranked. It is very important in today’s world for every citizen to become a “Global Citizen”.  To conclude the most powerful and best passport, a three-tier method is applied:

• Visa-Free Score (VFS) – includes visa-free (VF)

• Visa on arrival (VOA)

• VF portion of their score vs VOA

The most popular tool to rank the world’s most powerful and best passport is “Arton Capital’s Passport Index”. This collects displays and ranks the passports of the world. According to Arton, ranking helps to reveal the power of passport on the holder’s identity, its mobility and quality of life. Check out India’s ranking given below…

The World’s Most Powerful & Best Passports

Here is the list of the World’s Most Powerful & Best Passports in 2016 released by Arton Capital ranks Passport based on 199 countries:

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Indian Passport Ranking In 2016
 

Indian passport is globally ranked at 76^th in terms of travel freedom in 2016. Indian passport holders can visit 49 countries and territories either visa-free or visa on arrival. This position is considered to be low in respect to the Indian influence in the world economy.

The main reason that the Indian passport ranked so low in the global ranking of countries based on travel freedom is:

• Poverty

• Socialism

• Size

• Bad neighborhood

• Lower international stature

• Terrorism, threats and violence

• Less Memorandum of Understanding with the different states

• Less Involvement in global affairs

• Large population

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The list of countries that India can travel to without an advance visa include
 

The ranking of passport is published by The Henley & Partners which is determined on the source of the number of times a citizen is travelling to other countries visa-free. Hope you find it interesting knowing the ranks of passport of different countries.

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