The Australian passport is now among the top five most powerful [based on visa-free access to countries], according to the latest rankings, which also show a Southeast Asian nation has retained its top spot. Here’s how our little blue book fared.
Wow, ranked fifth… after seventeen other countries lol
Yeah, that is very silly. The usual convention when you have a tie for a ranking is to skip the appropriate number of rankings afterwards. Probably deliberate so that more countries’ media picks up the story because their country has a high ranking.
Also, hats off to Henley & Partners for somehow convincing the media that a very straightforward ranking needs to be a brand-named ‘index’. They don’t even compile the data! They just take it from IATA.
Full rankings and more info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henley_Passport_Index
