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African passports ranking for easiness to travel abroad

Friday, 27 January 2017 14:54

Traveling abroad is easier for citizens of Seychelles, Mauritius, and South Africa than for those of Ethiopia, DRC or Djibouti, reads Passportindex.org which issued the global index of passports in terms of easiness to travel.

Thus, a citizen of Seychelles can freely travel to 126 countries around the world (to 96 of them visa free and with a visa on arrival in 30 of them). On the opposite, having a Somali passport, one can travel to about 30 nations worldwide without a visa.

Worldwide, Germans are the ones with the ability to travel visa-free to the most countries (158 countries) and Afghans are the ones most asked a visa, except in 23 countries where they can travel to visa-free.

African passport ranking

(Visa-free or visa on arrival destinations )

1 Seychelles 126
2 Mauritius 118
3 South Africa 90
4 Botswana 69
5 Lesotho 66
6 Malawi 65
7 Swaziland 64
7 Namibia 64
7 Kenya 64
10 Gambia 63
10 Cape Verde 63
12 Tanzania 62
13 Tunisia 61
14 Zambia 59
15 Zimbabwe 58
16 Ghana 57
16 Uganda 57
18 Sierra Leone 56
19 Morocco 55
19 Benin 55
21 Guinea 54
21 Cote d’Ivoire 54
23 Senegal 53
23 Sao Tomé 53
25 Burkina Faso 52
25 Mauritania 52
27 Mali 51
28 Togo 50
29 Niger 49
29 Madagascar 49
31 Mozambique 48
31 Rwanda 48
31 Chad 48
31 Gabon 48
31 Egypt 48
36 Guinea Bissau 47
36 Algeria 47
36 Comoros 47
39 Liberia 44
39 Central Africa 44
41 Angola 43
41 Cameroon 43
41 Congo 43
41 Equatorial Guinea 43
45 Burundi 42
46 Nigeria 41
47 Djibouti 40
48 DR Congo 39
49 Libya 37
50 Eritrea 36
51 Sudan 36
52 South Sudan 34
53 Ethiopia 34
54 Somalia 30

 

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