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The "mobility score" is just a number of countries you can visit without visa. But that's a poor indication of what passport you'd like to own. For example, Si
by arnvald 7y ago
The "mobility score" is just a number of countries you can visit without visa. But that's a poor indication of what passport you'd like to own.
For example, Singapore is 4th on the list, 166 countries. But in order to live in any of these countries, you need a visa. On the other hand, Romania is 9th on the list, but Romania belongs to EU so its citizens can move to any of other 26 EU countries without visa. Doesn't it make their passport more powerful?
Hong Kong citizens can move to China, so while they can go without visa "only" to 154 countries, they can decide to move to China and freely move around the area of 10 million square meters, which is twice bigger than EU. Doesn't it impact the power of their passport?
I guess what I'm saying is: this list is too simple to take it seriously.
- titanomachy 7y agoI agree, the right to work and live in any Schengen country is very powerful and not at all included in the score.
- bryanrasmussen 7y ago>Doesn't it make their passport more powerful? No, because you don't need the passport to do the moving.
- bryanrasmussen 7y agoI guess the downvotes are because people are under the impression that you do need a passport to move between EU countries if you are an EU citizen, but of course this is not the case, and as it is not the case the passport itself does not gain any points from this property of EU citizenship.
- arnvald 7y agoI believe we just all assume that passport here really means the citizenship.
- z2 7y agoThat's exactly it! The list is so focused on country counts that it doesn't account for things that make visits interesting, such as population, area, or even economic development of the countries with access to. It would be easy to augment this index with this info though. It even falls flat on being a decent mobility index--I'd take a Schengen passport with full rights of abode in the EU over a UAE passport any day.
- ticmasta 7y agoWe need more of a Page Rank type of measure, where the inbound links (non-visa countries) are weighted by value. In reality though the true answer is something like dual citizenship in Canada and an EU Country or similar. Example: I have friends who are Canadian/Romanian and hold tech degrees, so most of the world is wide-open to them.
- splintercell 7y agoSoverignMan's passport index is different, it uses 'area' + access to certain countries (so it comes pretty close to what you are asking for): https://www.sovereignman.com/passport-ranking/ https://www.sovereignman.com/passport-ranking/
- Balgair 7y agoHmm, maybe then use 3 axes? 1 for the number of countries you can enter, one for the area of the country you can enter, and 1 for length of visa (maybe not just length though). Take the line of best fit, see which passport is furthest above that line?