Azerbaijani citizens can visit 70 countries without visa

Azerbaijan ranked 76th in the updated Henley & Partners Visa Restrictions Index for 2023.

Azerbaijani citizens can visit 70 countries without a visa. This is one country more than last year, Qazet.az reports according to the report of the organization, which published data for the first quarter of 2023 on January 10.

In 2022, Azerbaijan ranked 78th in this rating.

At the same time, as the compilers of the rating note, for the fifth year in a row, the rating of the strongest passports in the world in terms of the number of visa-free destinations (or with a visa on arrival) is headed by Japan with 193 countries of the world out of 227 open to holders of its passports. Singapore and South Korea took second place with the result of 192 visa-free destinations.

The Henley & Partners Visa Restrictions Index analyzes the visa regulations of more than 200 countries and territories around the world and ranks them by the number of visa-free entry countries. Updated annually, the Henley passport index is considered to be the standard reference tool for global citizens and sovereign states when assessing a passport’s place on the global mobility spectrum.