The "best passport" in the world is in Singapore

The traditional ranking of the most advantageous passports for travelling around the world has just been updated. Singapore has overtaken Germany as the country with the easiest international travel.
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The Global Henley Passport Index ranks countries according to the number of destinations to which their passport gives visa-free access.

Every year, Arton Capital publishes its Global Passport Power Rank" . The aim is to rank countries according to the number of visa exemptions enjoyed by their nationals around the world. In plain English: which is the most advantageous passport for travelling abroad? ? The previous edition of this ranking crowned theGermanybut Singapore to the top of this year's Global Passport Power Rank 2017 thanks to a new agreement with the Paraguay. The Singapore passport would now give access to 159 countries worldwide, one more than the German passport. Sweden and South Korea share third place in the list published a few days ago. The French business travellers are not to be pitied: they have easy access to 156 countriesThese include Italy, Spain, Japan and the UK. It remains to be seen whether recent events in Europe, in particular the Brexit and then the Catalan declaration of independence, may change the 2018 edition of this ranking.