Most passport rankings count every country as 1 point, so Tuvalu = France.
I made a version where each visa-free door is weighted by how many people actually go there.
So opening France, Spain, the US, China, Turkey etc matters much more than opening tiny islands with Robinson Crusoe as a visitor.
Top result: South Korea, at about 1.45B tourist-arrivals worth of accessible world (thanks to India).
Bottom: Afghanistan/Pakistan range, under 50M / 30M.
Most open destination: Maldives – 30 day visa for all but Israel.
Most overlooked: Burundi – opened the door to the whole world, but nobody came in.
And two more things:
- You can compare countries: where can the French go that Belgians can’t?
- With multiple citizenships, you can build your own passport gang. Will Argentina+Italy beat South Korea?
🕹️ Play here: https://aiandtractors.com/passport-ranking/
The dataset is here, pull requests are welcome.
Posted by Pichonn
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Also: key findings [https://aiandtractors.com/passport-insights/](https://aiandtractors.com/passport-insights/)
China quietly unlocked *455 million* tourists’ worth of new mobility, among other things.
Methodology: [https://aiandtractors.com/passport-insights/methodology/](https://aiandtractors.com/passport-insights/methodology/)
The next challenge is the classification of visas on arrival versus e-visas. Often, the difference is only in the bureaucratic lingo. In fact, some of the e-visas are easier to get than visas on arrival or ESTA.
Isn‘t the US same as most of the EU in this regard? I do not thing we welcome a lot of people but our passports are generally very strong.
Israel has a surprisingly strong passport
Vibe coding and failing to label the smaller countries (most egregiously Singapore – one of the highest in the world) shows this is **not** r/MapPorn
Strange label for Pakistan, because if you visit r/Pakistan it looks like everyone and their uncle are out to emigrate to NA or Europe.
Wow, an actual quality map with a clear and well thought out methodology.
Really awesome, thank you for posting!