ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s passport ranking has slipped by one position to the 101st spot globally and remains the fourth worst in the world, according to the Henley Passport Index, it emerged on Tuesday.
The Henley Passport Index compares 199 different passports across 227 different travel destinations, and calculates the score based on the number of destinations that can be accessed without a prior visa, or with a visa on arrival.
With visa-free access declining from 30 countries in May to 29 countries in July, the Pakistani passport’s rank slipped by one rank to 101st.
The travel document has been declared the world’s fourth worst since at least January 2021 on the Henley Index, based on multiple reports issued each year.
According to the Henley Index, Pakistani passport holders have free visa access to Barbados, Cook Islands, Dominica, Haiti, Micronesia, Montserrat, Rwanda, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, The Gambia, Trinidad and Tobago, and Vanuatu.
Visa-on-arrival (VOA) is available for Burundi, Cambodia, Comoro Islands, Djibouti, Guinea-Bissau, Madagascar, Maldives, Mozambique, Nepal, Niue, Palau Islands, Samoa, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Timor-Leste, and Tuvalu. Electronic travel authorisations can also be obtained for Kenya, Seychelles and Sri Lanka.
Cape Verde Islands, Mozambique and Qatar have stopped offering visa-free or VOA access to Pakistanis this year, although they did so in January.
The 100th ranking in May was also a descent from March, when the travel document ranked 98th with 31 countries accessible without a visa.
In February, the passport ranked 97th as Pakistani citizens had access to 32 destinations — up from 31 in January, following the reinstatement of The Gambia.
Published in Dawn, July 29th, 2026