The Barbados passport has inched up one spot on the ranking of
the world's passports, remaining the highest-ranked in the
Caribbean.
With a visa-free score of 161 – the number of destinations
that holders of a Barbados passport can enter without a visa
– the latest Henley Passport Index Report puts Barbados at
23rd globally, out of 199 different passports and 227
destinations.
Last year, the Barbados passport was ranked 24th with the same
score.
The index is the original ranking of all the world's
passports according to the number of destinations their holders can
access without a prior visa.
St Kitts and Nevis are ranked 25th with a score of 157; the
Bahamas is 26th with a score of 155; St Vincent and the Grenadines
at 29th with a score of 151; Antigua and Barbuda and Trinidad and
Tobago are both at 30th with a score of 150; and St Lucia is at
31st with a visa-free score of 146.
