site.btaBulgaria Placed 15th in 2025 Henley Passport Index

Bulgaria, Romania and Monaco share the 15th place in the latest Henley Passport Index ranking of 199 passports in the world according to the number of destinations their holders can access without a prior visa, according to the Henley Global website. Bulgarian passport holders can freely travel to 178 countries.

Singapore has the world’s most powerful passport, with its citizens granted visa-free access to 195 out of 227 global destinations. Japan is ranked second, with visa-free access to 193 spots, but still ahead of the rest after it regained visa-free access to neighboring China for the first time since the Covid lockdowns.

Several EU Member States — France, Germany, Italy, and Spain — drop two places in the ranking to third position and are joined by Finland and South Korea, which each lost a place over the past 12 months and now have access to 192 destinations with no prior visa required.

A seven-nation EU cohort, all with visa-free access to 191 destinations — Austria, Denmark, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden — share the fourth place, while five countries — Belgium, New Zealand, Switzerland, and the UK — come in fifth with 190 visa-free destinations.

Afghanistan remains firmly entrenched at the bottom of the Henley Passport Index, having lost visa-free access to a further two destinations over the past year.

The rest of the index’s Top 10 is largely dominated by European countries, except for Australia (sixth place with 189 destinations), Canada (seventh place with 188 destinations), the US (ninth place with 186 destinations), and the UAE, the first and only Arab state to ever make it into the upper echelons of the ranking.