PH passport drops to 79th place in global passport ranking
The Philippine passport now ranks 79th among 199 different passports, slipping 6 notches from its 73rd position last year, according to the global passport ranking 2025 conducted by Henley & Partners.
Sharing the 79th spot with Sierra Leone, Philippine passport holders can travel to 64 destinations around the world without needing to obtain a visa or e-visa prior to travel.
Over the past five years, the country's passport strength has seesawed, going from 74th in 2020, 83rd in 2021, 77th in 2022, 78th in 2023, and ending at 73rd last year. The global passport ranking is updated monthly.
The Singaporean passport, at the top spot this year, has spent the past decade within the top 5, mostly at 1st or 2nd. For the first time in 20 years, the US passport fell out of the top 10, dropping to 12th place.
Some destinations will still require Philippine passport holders to obtain a voa (visa on arrival)—a type of visa that you can get once you arrive at the destination. There's no need to apply for it in advance. Others, like Israel, require Filipinos to get an eTA (electronic travel authorization) before traveling. An eTA, which isn't a visa, is an online pre-approval travel document that is normally approved within minutes or hours.
Based on the 2025 ranking, Filipinos can travel to the following countries without a visa:
- Barbados
- Bolivia
- Brazil
- Brunei
- Burundi – voa
- Cambodia
- Cape Verde Islands – voa
- Colombia
- Comoro Islands – voa
- Cook Islands
- Costa Rica
- Cote d’Ivoire
- Djibouti – voa
- Dominica
- Ethiopia – voa
- Fiji
- Guinea-Bissau – voa
- Haiti
- Hong Kong
- Indonesia
- Iran – voa
- Israel – eTA
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya – eTA
- Kiribati
- Kyrgyzstan – voa
- Laos
- Macao
- Madagascar – voa
- Malawi – voa
- Malaysia
- Maldives – voa
- Marshall Islands
- Mauritius – voa
- Micronesia
- Mongolia
- Morocco
- Mozambique – voa
- Myanmar
- Nepal – voa
- Nicaragua – voa
- Niue – voa
- Palau Islands – voa
- Palestinian Territory
- Peru
- Rwanda
- Samoa – voa
- Senegal
- Seychelles – eTA
- Singapore
- Sri Lanka – eTA
- St. Lucia – voa
- St. Vincent and the Grenadines
- Suriname
- Taiwan
- Tajikistan
- Tanzania – voa
- Thailand
- The Gambia
- Timor-Leste – voa
- Trinidad and Tobago – voa
- Tuvalu – voa
- Vanuatu
- Vietnam
The countries with the most powerful passports, according to the 2025 Henley Passport Index are, in chronological order: Singapore, South Korea, Japan, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Spain, Switzerland, Austria, and Belgium.
To conduct its annual ranking, the Henley Passport Index uses exclusive data from the International Air Transport Authority and is used as a standard reference tool by travelers and the tourism sector.
