clarification an earlier version of this story had said 60 countries taking into account armenia however armenia has clarified that indians do require an evisa or physical visa for travelling into the countrynew delhi india has improved its passport power for the year 2022 climbing six places to rank 84th compared to last years 90th position as it now has access 59 countries that dont require a prior visa oman is the latest destination indian passport holders can now visit without obtaining a visa compared to 58 visafree access destinations in q4 2021 india has risen in the ranking by six places due to visa access changes higher up on the index which has created new ties or places now held jointly by other nations that rank above itwhen two countries holding two spots in the ranking become two countries holding one spot the result is that everyone beneath them goes up in rank in practical terms for instance nothing actually got better for turkey in terms of its visafree access but it did improve its ranking its just a result of how the ranking powered by iata data treats ties over 128 million passports were issued in 2019 by the passport issuing authorities pia in india and abroad making india the third largest passport issuer globally after china and the united statesaccording to historical data from the henley passport index which ranks all the worlds passports according to the number of destinations their holders can access without a prior visa and is based on exclusive data from the international air transport association iata an individual could on average visit 57 countries in 2006 visafree today that number has risen to 107 but this overall increase masks a growing disparity between countries in the global north and those in the global south with nationals from countries such as sweden and the us able to visit more than 180 destinations visafree while passport holders from angola cameroon and laos can only enter about 50japan and singapore most powerful passports the results show recordbreaking levels of travel freedom for topranking nations japan and singapore without taking temporary covid related restrictions into account passport holders of the two asian nations can now enter 192 destinations around the world visafree 166 more than afghanistan which sits at the bottom of the indexcovid19 exacerbates inequality in global mobilitygermany and south korea hold onto joint second spot on the latest ranking with passport holders able to access 190 destinations visafree while finland italy luxembourg and spain share 3rd place with a score of 189 the us and the uk passports have regained some of their previous strength after falling all the way to 8th place in 2020 the lowest spot held by either country in the indexs 17year history both countries now sit in 6th place with a visafreevisaonarrival score of 186the uae continues its upward trajectory on the henley passport index having recently reinstated in practical terms its landmark usbrokered agreement with