According to VisaGuide’s World Passport Index, Nigerian passport ranks 191 out of 199 countries, making it the world’s tenth worst travel document.
According to the research, as of April, the Nigerian passport ranked higher than North Korea (192), Iraq (193), Libya (194), Sudan (195), Pakistan (196), Afghanistan (197), Syria (198), and Somalia (199).
The index is a passport ranking system that assesses and ranks passports from nations and territories based on the Destination Significance Score (DSS). Rankings are typically based on a variety of parameters to measure their strength and offer a distinct value to each passport.
In the latest index, the Singaporean passport came first on the chart as the strongest in the world, followed by the Italian passport. Based on the index, Spanish, French and German passports are ranked as third, fourth, and fifth respectively. The report disclosed, “To reach a unique ranking, we assign a value, which we call Destination Significance Score (DSS), to each travel destination.”
It added, “A unique DSS value is assigned to each destination based on the entry policy it enforces on the passport, GDP, Power Index, Tourism Index and Human Development Index (HDI), among other factors. The DSS is multiplied with the value of the visa requirement of the destination country toward the selected passport holders.”
Other considerations include visa-free travel, electronic travel authorization, visa on arrival, electronic visa (e-visa), embassy or other government-issued visas, passport-free travel, and prohibited entrance.
Nigerian passport
It further stated that, because each target country is assigned a unique DSS, “being able to travel visa-free to a destination with a higher DSS gives the selected passport a higher value than having visa-free access to a country with a lower (sic) DSS.”
“This results in a more accurate ranking for each passport,” according to the index.
Source: vanguardngr.com
