{"id":111689,"date":"2026-07-07T12:03:46","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T06:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=111689"},"modified":"2026-07-07T13:12:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T07:42:45","slug":"global-passport-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/global-passport-index\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Passport Index"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Global Passport Index Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India&#8217;s ranking in the Global Passport Index (GPI) has slipped to 125th spot, one rank drop from last year.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Global Passport Index<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It ranks passports not <\/span><b>only on the ease of international<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> travel but also on the benefits they offer for living, working and investing in other countries.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>comprehensive passport ranking<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that goes beyond measuring the number of countries passport holders can travel to without a visa.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Published by:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is published by residency and citizenship advisory firm <\/span><b>Global Citizen Solutions (GCS).<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It measures passports across <\/span><b>three key categories:<\/b> <b>Enhanced Mobility<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (50 per cent), <\/span><b>Investment <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(25 per cent) and Quality of Living (25 per cent). These are based on <\/span><b>14 separate indicators.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It draws on <\/span><b>quantitative data from various international institutions<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and multilateral organisations such as the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/world-bank\/\" target=\"_blank\">World Bank<\/a><\/strong>, the World Economic Forum and the Sustainable Development Report<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Key Highlights of Global Passport Index 2026<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Strongest passports of this year&#8217;s index are: Sweden, Switzerland, Finland, Germany, Denmark (joint) and Netherlands (joint).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/india-news\/global-passport-index-how-it-ranks-passports-and-why-india-is-125th-101783259413029.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">HT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global Passport Index ranks passports not only on the ease of international travel but also on the benefits they offer for living, working and investing in other countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":111720,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8550,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-111689","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-global-passport-index","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111689"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111730,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111689\/revisions\/111730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}