How does your passport rank against others for travel? What is the best passport in the world?

Here I look at different lists for passports and tell you which one comes out top (spoiler: it's not the US passport!)

You've probably heard that this or that passport is the top one to have when you travel abroad. But do you know how the rankings are worked out? What factors are weighed?

Probably the best publicized list is the Henley Passport Index, which gets attention every time there's an update. But there are others: the Passport Index with its Global Passport Power Rank, and another, the List of the World's Most Powerful Passports. And the top passport is different on each of them -- because different factors are weighed each time.

But one of the more interesting lists I thought was the Quality of Nationality Index, which looks at not just how many countries someone with a particular passport can vacation in visa-free, but also how good that passport is to let you WORK or LIVE in another country, and how well the home country scores on things like human development. A much more complex matrix which is pretty useful for travelers or global nomads who want to do more than go to a beach. (Unfortunately this index hasn't been updated for a couple of years -- I wonder why?)

Anyway, dive in with me to look at passport power and how there really is a privileged tier for people with certain passports.... and how the same certain countries always rank at the bottom.

** Shot on an iPhone, edited with LumaFusion **

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