{"id":2119,"date":"2025-07-23T22:50:44","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T22:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/?p=2119"},"modified":"2025-07-22T23:14:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T23:14:53","slug":"the-worlds-least-powerful-passports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/the-worlds-least-powerful-passports\/","title":{"rendered":"The world’s least powerful Passports"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nBy Visual Capitalist<\/a><\/h6>\n

The world\u2019s least powerful passports are held by countries like Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Pakistan, and Yemen. These passports offer very limited visa-free access\u2014often fewer than 40 countries\u2014which makes international travel difficult unless you have a specific personal connection to one of these places.<\/p>\n

Sri Lanka\u2019s passport also ranks low, granting visa-free or visa-on-arrival access to around 40 countries. While not particularly strong, it does allow travel to a few interesting destinations and sometimes includes visa-free entry to India through special arrangements.<\/p>\n

Venezuela\u2019s passport is surprisingly mid-ranked<\/a>, despite the country\u2019s current instability. It offers more travel options than passports from places like Kuwait or Qatar, which is unexpected given those countries\u2019 wealth. This just goes to show that a country\u2019s economic or political influence doesn\u2019t always correlate with passport strength. Venezuela could become more important in the future, thanks to its large oil reserves.<\/p>\n

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\nBy Visual Capitalist<\/a><\/h6>\n

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By Visual Capitalist The world\u2019s least powerful passports are held by countries like Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Pakistan, and Yemen. These passports offer very limited visa-free access\u2014often fewer than 40 countries\u2014which makes international travel difficult unless you have a specific personal connection to one of these places. Sri Lanka\u2019s passport also ranks low, granting visa-free or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-passports-second-citizenship","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2122,"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119\/revisions\/2122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}