In the list, Pakistan is the fourth country with the weakest passport. Photo: File
Nomad Capitalist, a passport rating agency, has released this year’s list in which the honor of the world’s most powerful passport has gone to the Gulf Muslim country of the United Arab Emirates.
Nomad Capitalist does not rate passports solely on the basis of visa-free facility. As do other institutions. Nomad Capitalist makes this classification based on five factors.
First, how many countries have visa-free service for a passport of a country. Its numbers are kept up to 50 percent. Secondly, what is the income of the citizens, which has 20 percent marks, while the impression of this country in the third world, the fourth is dual citizenship and the fifth is personal freedom in this country, whose marks are 10 percent.
Nomad Capitalist List 2023 The first number is the United Arab Emirates, whose passport allows you to travel to 181 countries without a visa. 50 marks in revenue, 40 marks in perception while 33 marks were obtained in dual citizenship and personal freedom.
The United Arab Emirates thus became the world’s most powerful passport-holding country on the Nomad Capitalist list with an overall score of 110.5.
It should be noted that the United Arab Emirates was ranked 32nd in last year’s list of Nomad Capitalists.
After the United Arab Emirates, Switzerland and Luxembourg are joint second in the list with a score of 108, whose passports allow visa-free travel to 174 countries.
There was also a tie for third place between two countries, Ireland and Portugal. The two jointly claimed the number with a score of 50.107. These passports allow visa-free travel to 173 countries.
There are also two countries at the fourth position in the list. Germany and Czech Republic scored 107, 107. New Zealand managed to get 8th place with a score of 106.50 and Sweden, Finland, Netherlands joint 9th place while Norway was 10th.
Out of 200 in this list, China is ranked 128, India is 159 and Sri Lanka is 170 while Bangladesh is at 182.
In Nomad Capitalist’s list of weakest passports, Pakistan ranked fourth with a score of 31.50. Only Iraq, Yemen and Afghanistan rank above Pakistan in weak passports respectively.
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