
For a fifth year in a row, the Japanese passport has been crowned the world's most powerful passport with the holders gaining visa-free access or visa on arrival to 193 countries.

The Singaporean passport is almost as strong as the Japanese one, but it provides access to 192 countries at present

South Korea is currently tied with Singapore as the country with the second most powerful passport in the world with access to 192 nations

The Middle Eastern countries continue to have the weakest passports in the world with Iraq citizens having visa-free access to just 29 countries

The Taliban-government Afghanistan has the weakest passport in the world currently with visa-free access to only 27 countries