5-Year Visa-Free Welcome Gainers–and Laggards

Over the past 5-year period, from 2010 to 2015 the average Visa-Free Welcome Index gained 5.9%. Leaders of visa-free welcome over that period are (with percentage point gains of their Visa-Free Welcome Indices):

1. Guinea-Bissau, 96%
2. Kenya, 94%
3. Mauritania, 94%
4. Laos, 92%
5. Myanmar, 82%

The laggards decline was significant–as they tightened their visa-free welcome. Most significant ones are:

1. Turks and Caicos, -37%
2. Virgin Islands, -31%
3. Pakistan, -19%
4. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, -19%
5. Hong Kong, -18%.