Passport Power
In the game of passport top trumps, Sweden wins
The travel booking website, GoEuro, have devised a list of the world’s 51 most powerful passports. By ranking them according to how many countries they can grant you access to without having to obtain a visa, and using the cost of the passport as a tie-breaker, they’ve declared Sweden the victor.
While there are five passports that can grant you visa-free access to 174 countries, Sweden has the cheapest at just £28, followed by Finland, Germany, the UK and the USA.
*The price and length of validity are based on a standard adult passport in each country, where there was more than one option for passport length, prices and length of validity were averaged.
**The amount of hours worked to obtain a passport was figured based on the national minimum wage where available. For countries where there is no standard minimum wage we looked at average salaries for jobs that would usually provide a minimum wage payment.
The coolest passport in the world?
The Finnish passport provides some entertainment for border guards: doubling as a flip book, it has a moose walking through the pages:
