{"id":343469,"date":"2025-07-25T16:14:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T10:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=343469"},"modified":"2025-07-25T16:14:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T10:44:21","slug":"henley-passport-index-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/henley-passport-index-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Henley Passport Index 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>News:<\/strong> The Henley Passport Index 2025 (July edition) was released by Henley and Partners Consultancy.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">About Henley Passport Index\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Henley Passport Index ranks the world&#8217;s passports <strong>based on the number of destinations their holders can access without a prior visa.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The index is compiled using exclusive data from the I<strong>nternational Air Transport Association (IATA),<\/strong> and it is updated <strong>quarterly.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Global 2025 Leaders<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>1st: Singapore \u2013<\/strong> Access to 193 destinations<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>2nd: Japan &amp; South Korea \u2013<\/strong> Access to 190 destinations<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>3rd: Seven EU countries <\/strong>(e.g., Germany, France) \u2013 Access to 189 destination<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Decline in Traditional Powers:<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>U.S.passport:<\/strong> 10th place (182 destinations)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>U.K.passport:<\/strong> 6th place (186 destinations)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>India\u2019s 2025 Position:<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rank climbed from 85th to 77th<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Visa-Free Access: Increased from 57 to 59 countries<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>New Additions:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Philippines and Sri Lanka<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The Henley Passport Index 2025 (July edition) was released by Henley and Partners Consultancy. About Henley Passport Index\u00a0 The Henley Passport Index ranks the world&#8217;s passports based on the number of destinations their holders can access without a prior visa. The index is compiled using exclusive data from the International Air Transport Association (IATA),&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/henley-passport-index-2025\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Henley Passport Index 2025<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1305,12039],"tags":[11872,10498],"class_list":["post-343469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-index-reports-bodies","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}