Which nation has the most effective passport? See the 2025 rating
Eire has the strongest passport on this planet, in line with the Nomad Passport Index 2025.
It is the primary time that the northern European nation has held the solo No. 1 spot within the annual rating from Nomad Capitalist, a tax and immigration consultancy. Eire did, nonetheless, come shut in 2020, when it tied for the highest spot alongside Luxembourg and Sweden.
“Eire shook up the rankings, due to the nation’s sturdy worldwide fame, business-friendly tax insurance policies, and total citizenship flexibility,” the corporate’s analysis affiliate Javier Correa advised CNBC Journey.
Not like different rankings, which regularly consider passports primarily based solely on their visa-free journey energy, Nomad Capitalist’s rating analyzes 5 standards:
- Visa-free journey — 50%
- Taxation — 20%
- World notion — 10%
- Capacity to carry twin citizenship — 10%
- Private freedom (freedom of the press, necessary navy service, and so forth.) — 10%
These components enable individuals contemplating a unique, or extra, passport to raised perceive the “true worth” of citizenships all over the world, and finally to “go the place they’re handled finest,” in line with the index.
The passport rating
The ninth version of the record ranks 199 international locations and territories utilizing 20 sources, corresponding to nation tax authorities for tax rankings, and the World Happiness Report and the United Nations’ Human Growth Index for notion rankings, in line with the index.
Scores vary from 10 to 50, aside from the visa class, which is the variety of international locations that passport holders can enter without having a visa.
Here is the record from first to forty ninth place:
European international locations maintain 9 of the highest 10 spots, from the perennial powerhouse of Switzerland to the small nations of Luxembourg and Malta.
The very best ranked passports exterior of Europe are the United Arab Emirates and New Zealand, that are each tied for tenth place.
The full record could be seen at Nomad Capitalist’s web site.
Greece rises, UAE falls
Greece (tied for 2nd), Slovenia (tied for thirteenth) and Spain (tied for thirty second) rose within the 2025 rankings, fueled by modifications to every international locations’ tax scores.
“In a turbulent yr marked by shifting geopolitics and coverage upheaval, Greece surged dramatically from sixth into joint second with Switzerland, reflecting its rising credibility amongst high-net-worth people, retirees, and world traders,” in line with a press launch saying the rating.
Nonetheless, different international locations — together with Lithuania, Netherlands, Germany and Hungary — moved down the rating. Notably, the UAE — which was No. 1 in 2023 and tied for No. 6 in 2024 — moved to tenth place in 2025.
“Lately launched taxes … have tarnished [the UAE’s] attract for world entrepreneurs,” the discharge acknowledged.
International locations which high different lists — like Singapore and Japan — rank decrease in Nomad Capitalist’s record. Each rating low for twin citizenship, which is restricted in Japan and not acknowledged in Singapore. Japan can also be dinged within the taxation class, whereas Singapore has lukewarm scores for private freedoms.
Singapore ranked 126 out of 180 international locations in Reporters With out Borders’ 2024 World Press Freedom Index and requires male residents and everlasting residents to serve roughly two years within the navy once they flip 18 years outdated. The island nation, nonetheless, has high scores for “notion.”
The weakest passports on the record, ranked from 195 to 199, are Pakistan, Iraq, Eritrea, Yemen and Afghanistan.
— CNBC’s Bella Stoddart contributed to this report.
