Which Passports Allow you to Travel the World Freely

As a Kenyan no-one needs to tell you that your passport can be a restriction to travelling. From my informal survey it seems with a Kenyan passport you can only visit EAC countries without issues that is only 7 countries in the whole world, not much. Well with some passports you can visit as much as 173 countries without requiring a passport.

Sometimes residence in a  country can also allow you to criss cross countries with your passport, one such example is the Schengen visa which allows you to visit 22 EU member states, namely: (Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden)

Bulgaria, Cyprus, and Romania are not yet full members of the Schengen area.

The United Kingdom and Ireland have chosen to maintain border controls, thus people holding the Schengen visa and a passport from a country that requires a visa, have to apply for the UK visa.

Here’s a list of passports that will allow you travel the world freely:

1	Finland	173	9	Malaysia	163
1	Sweden	173	9	Malta	163
1	United Kingdom	173	10	Liechtenstein	159
2	Denmark	172	14	Hong Kong	152
2	Germany	172	19	Brazil	146
2	Luxembourg	172	20	Israel	144
2	United States	172	24	St. Kitts & Nevis	131
3	Belgium	171	40	Montenegro	98
3	Italy	171	41	Russian Federation	95
3	Netherlands	171	42	South Africa	94
4	Canada	170	44	Bosnia Herzogovina	91
4	France	170	46	Dominica	87
4	Ireland	170	56	United Arab Emirates	72
4	Japan	170	60	Thailand	64
4	Norway	170	74	India	52
4	Portugal	170	79	Egypt	47
4	Spain	170	81	Vietnam	45
5	Austria	168	82	China	44
5	New Zealand	168	86	Iran	40
5	Switzerland	168	88	Lebanon	38
6	Australia	167	89	Nepal	37
6	Greece	167	91	Pakistan	32
6	Singapore	167	93	Afghanistan	28
7	South Korea	166
8	Iceland	165