Henley Index: Japan tops 2020 list of world's most powerful passports

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Japan is now top of the leaderboard, offering visa-free or visa-on-arrival access to an incredible 191 destinations around the world, according to the Henley Passport Index, which periodically measures the world's most travel-friendly passports

What's the travel document that opens more doors around the world than any other? It's a Japanese passport., which periodically measures the world's most travel-friendly passports, has released its first report of the new decade.

European countries have a strong showing in the rest of the top ten, with Finland and Spain at No.4, Spain, Luxembourg and Denmark coming fifth, and Sweden and France sitting at No. 6.The US and the UK, meanwhile, continue to slide down the rankings. As we step into the 2020s, they hold joint eighth place -- a far cry from the number one spot they jointly held five years ago, in 2015.

Sumption also notes that net EU migration to the UK fell by 59% between 2015 and 2018, with many EU citizens perhaps wary of settling in the UK with the threat of Brexit on the horizon.

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