Henley Passport Index points 2025 rating.
Italy has been ranked within the prime three of the world’s strongest passports, based on the newest report by the London-based consulting agency Henley & Companions.
Established in 2006, the Henley Passport Index tracks the worldwide freedom of motion for holders of 199 passports to 227 locations around the globe, utilizing knowledge from the Worldwide Air Transport Affiliation (IATA) to ascertain which passports maintain the best weight when travelling overseas.
The 2025 version of the report ranks Italy in joint third place alongside Denmark, Germany, Finland, France, Eire and Spain, all of which provide visa-free entry to 189 nations worldwide.
In first place as soon as once more is Singapore, whose passport holders can entry 193 nations, whereas in joint second place are Japan and South Korea, with entry to 190 nations.
Henley’s newest rating reveals the UK passport has moved down the checklist, touchdown in sixth place from fifth (with entry to 186 locations), whereas the US passport has additionally slipped to tenth place from ninth, with entry to 182 nations.
Each of those passports had been as soon as the world’s strongest: the UK from 2013-2015 (pre-Brexit) and the US in 2014.
Afghanistan’s passport stays backside of the checklist, granting visa-free entry to only 25 nations worldwide; adopted by Syria with entry to 27 nations; and Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia with entry to 29 nations.
Earlier this 12 months Italy’s authorities tightened its citizenship legal guidelines as a part of a clampdown on alleged abuse of the system to say an Italian passport by descent.
Beneath the amended regulation, candidates for an Italian passport should now have one mum or dad or grandparent who “solely” holds, or held on the time of their loss of life, Italian citizenship.
The brand new two-generation guidelines tighten the earlier ius sanguinis (blood proper) requirement, a regulation relationship to 1992, which allowed anybody with an Italian ancestor who was alive after 17 March 1861 – when the Kingdom of Italy was created – to hunt Italian citizenship.
