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PH drops to 75th spot in int’l passport ranking with 66 visa-free destinations

The Philippine passport dropped three spots from 72nd to 75th in the latest Henley Passport Index with Philippine passport holders having visa-free or visa-on-arrival access to 66 countries in the world.

In the Southeast Asia region, Philippines is the seventh strongest passport out of 11 countries.

The ranking in the region is as follows:

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The 66 destinations that offer visa-free or visa-on-arrival to Filipinos are the following:

1. Armenia
2. Benin
3. Bolivia
4. Brazil
5. Brunei
6. Cambodia
7. Cape Verde Islands
8. Colombia
9. Comores Islands
10. Cook Islands
11. Costa Rica
12. Cote d’lvoire (Ivory Coast)
13. Djibouti
14. Dominica
15. Ecuador
16. Fiji
17. Gambia
18. Guinea-Bissau
19. Haiti
20. Hong Kong (SAR China)
21. Indonesia
22. Iran
23. Israel
24. Kenya
25. Kyrgyztan
26. Laos
27. Macao (SAR China)
28. Madagascar
29. Malawi
30. Malaysia
31. Maldives
32. Marshall Islands
33. Mauritania
34. Mauritius
35. Micronesia
36. Mongolia
37. Morocco
38. Mozambique
39. Myanmar
40. Nepal
41. Nicaragua
42. Niue
43. Palau Islands
44. Palestinian Territory
45. Papua New Guinea
46. Peru
47. Rwanda
48. Samoa
49. Seychelles
50. Singapore
51. Somalia
52. Sri Lanka
53. St. Lucia
54. St. Vincent and the Grenadines
55. Suriname
56. Taiwan
57. Tajikistan
58. Tanzania
59. Thailand
60. Timor-Leste
61. Togo
62. Trinidad and Tobago
63. Tuvalu
64. Uganda
65. Vanuatu
66. Vietnam

Overall, Japan ranked the most powerful passport with 189 visa-free destinations followed by Singapore (189 destinations); Germany, France, South Korea (188); and Denmark, Finland, Italy, Sweden, Spain (187).

The 2018 Henley Passport Index surveyed 199 passports of 277 countries, territories, and micro-states. It stated that it “looked into the travel freedom of countries based on an authoritative database of travel information.”

“The index is innovating how travel freedom is measured and mapped, making it easier for individuals to understand where exactly they lie on the spectrum of global mobility,” it added.

Henley Global, the global citizenship and residence advisory firm which created the index.

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