German passports rank No.1 as the world's most powerful passport....Korea ranks 36th

  • 8 years ago
German passports seem to be the most powerful in the world in terms of travel freedom, which refers to the number of countries citizens can travel to without needing a visa
According to U.K.-based firm Henley & Partners' 2016 Visa Restrictions Index, Germans hold the most valuable passport with visa-free access to hundred-seventy-seven countries.
The immigration and citizenship firm also released its Quality of Nationality Index, which ranked more than 160 nationalities on two counts,...internal value, which looks into the nation's economic power, peacefulness and stability, and external value which measures the number of countries that a citizen can travel to.
Korea came in thirty-sixth, following U.S. and Japan.
The top thirty countries were mainly European countries, boosted by economic integration and the right to free movement and work.

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