Malta has the ninth "most powerful" passport in the world, down two places from last year, according to this year's Passport Index. Germany has the most powerful passport in the world, with a visa-free score of 157, followed by Sweden in second place with a score of 156. Finland, France, Switzerland, Spain, South Korea and the UK were each given a ranking of 156, sharing the third spot. Malta, together with Iceland, was given a score of 150. Despite being ranked in the ninth position, as a number of countries were given the same ranking, there are, in fact, 27 other countries with passports that are more powerful. The index also shows that Afghanistan had the worst-ranking passport in the world, coming in at the 95th place and a ranking of 24. Also at the bottom end of the scale were the passports for Pakistan and Iraq. At 94th place, that for Pakistan was given a score of 27 while that for Iraq stood at 93rd place with a score 29. The index is drawn up by combining the ranking for visa-free travel, together with visa-on-arrival ratio, with the country's score as attributed by the UN Development Programme Human Development Index. According to the UN World Tourism Organisation,...
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