An online free information guide to worldwide visa, VisaGuide.World, has released the rankings of the ten weakest African passports in 2024. While some African nations offer their citizens robust travel privileges, others face significant limitations, constraining international mobility.
Passports from these countries often provide restricted visa-free or visa-on-arrival access to other nations, creating substantial hurdles for travellers. These constraints not only hinder personal journeys but also impact business ventures, educational pursuits, and diplomatic interactions.
The 2024 findings unveiled by VisaGuide.World Passport Index illuminate the diverse standings of each country’s passport. This index, which evaluates and ranks passports from 199 countries and territories, employs a nuanced approach to assess their strength.
What sets the VisaGuide.World Passport Index apart is its distinct methodology: each passport is uniquely ranked, reflecting variations in visa regulations, including visa-free entry, e-visas, visas on arrival, authorization entry, and visa bans.
To determine these rankings, the Passport Index utilizes a proprietary Destination Significance Score, amalgamating multiple factors such as entry policies, GDP, Power Index, Tourism Index, and Human Development Index.
The index is regularly updated to capture evolving global travel dynamics. In Africa, the rankings reveal Somalia with the weakest passport, scoring 8.15. Following closely is Sudan, with a score of 10.70, and Libya, scoring 11.08.
Here’s the list of the ten least powerful African passports in 2024:
1. Somalia
2. Sudan
3. Libya
4. Nigeria
5. Eritrea
6. Republic of the Congo
7. Djibouti
8. Burundi
9. South Sudan
10. Democratic Republic of the Congo
