All top four countries in the world, ranked by the Visa-Free Travel Index in 2015, are in Asia, and so are five out of the top 6. In the top ten list there is only one from the Americas—the Bahamas; remaining four are from Europe.
Countries making up the top ten list are (in that order):
Nineteen countries welcome all the world’s citizens without a visa in 2015. They are, in alphabetical order:
Three countries are new to the list: Kenya, Mauritania, and Turkey. Two dropped from the list, however: Samoa (introducing visas for a number of EU countries) and Sri Lanka (introducing visas for citizens of Pakistan and several primarily African countries).
Ten countries, of the 214 we track, have been welcoming all the citizens of the world, not requiring visas for a visit—for ten years now, year after year, consistently. We recognize, celebrate—and thank—these champions of welcome: they are, in alphabetical order:
