Which nation has the most effective passport? See the 2025 rating
Eire has the strongest passport on the 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, nevertheless, come shut in 2020, when it tied for the highest spot alongside Luxembourg and Sweden.
“Eire shook up the rankings, because of the nation’s robust worldwide popularity, business-friendly tax insurance policies, and total citizenship flexibility,” the corporate’s analysis affiliate Javier Correa informed CNBC Journey.
In contrast to different rankings, which regularly consider passports based mostly solely on their visa-free journey energy, Nomad Capitalist’s rating analyzes 5 standards:
- Visa-free journey — 50%
- Taxation — 20%
- World notion — 10%
- Skill to carry twin citizenship — 10%
- Private freedom (freedom of the press, necessary navy service, and so on.) — 10%
These components enable individuals contemplating a special, or extra, passport to higher perceive the “true worth” of citizenships all over the world, and in the end to “go the place they’re handled greatest,” in line with the index.
The passport rating
The ninth version of the record ranks 199 nations and territories utilizing 20 sources, resembling 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 nations that passport holders can enter with no need a visa.
This is the record from first to forty ninth place:
European nations 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 nations’ tax scores.
“In a turbulent 12 months 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 buyers,” in line with a press launch saying the rating.
Nevertheless, different nations — 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.
“Not too long ago launched taxes … have tarnished [the UAE’s] attract for world entrepreneurs,” the discharge said.
International locations which prime 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 nations 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 previous. The island nation, nevertheless, has prime 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.
