World’s most powerful passports: How does South Africa’s ‘green mamba’ compare in 2023?

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South Africa's travel document is recovering slowly from its all-time low in 2021

20 January 2023 - 07:30The SA passport has risen two places in the 2023 installment of the Henley Passport Index.The South African passport has placed 53rd in a ranking of the world’s most powerful travel documents, recovering two places from last year’s 55th. looks at 199 of the world’s passports and ranks them according to how many of 227 destinations their holders can enter visa-free. P

assports eligible for visas on arrival and electronic travel authorities are also categorised as visa-free. According to the latest list, South Africa is the world’s 53rd most powerful passport, giving holders visa-free access tocountries. These include Thailand, Argentina, Israel, Seychelles, Peru, Ireland, Georgia and Qatar. A visa is required for When the index started in 2006, South Africa ranked 37th. The highest position the country has held was 35th, for two years in a row, in 2008 and 2009. In 2021, South Africa hit its lowest ranking ever at 58th.

Singapore and South Korea tie for second place with access to 192 and Germany and Spain are tied in third withworld’s worst passport is Afghanistan’s, with just 27 countries open to its passport holders without a visa. Second and third last are Iraq and Syria .

 

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