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Papua New Guinea passport

Rank #69 · Strength 77 destinations (visa-free + on arrival + eTA) · score 29.8

Papua New Guinea passport

Citizens of Papua New Guinea can reach 77 of 248 destinations without applying for a consular visa in advance — 47 visa-free, 21 visa on arrival and 9 eTA. Ranked #69 for passport strength worldwide.

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47Visa-free
21Visa on arrival
9eTA
53e-⁠Visa
117Visa required

Papua New Guinea passport: where it stands

This passport is stronger than 44% of the 198 passports in the Passport Index. Within Oceania it ranks 12 of 14; the strongest in the region is Australia, with 195 destinations. Across 6 major destinations: the Schengen Area, the United States and Japan require a consular visa; the United Kingdom and Canada require an eTA; Australia issues an e-⁠Visa online. Beyond those 77 destinations, 53 issue an e-⁠Visa online and 117 require a consular visa; e-⁠Visas do not count towards passport strength.

Visa-free (47)

Angola Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Bahamas Belize Bermuda Botswana British Virgin Islands Cayman Islands Colombia Cook Islands Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador Eswatini Falkland Islands Fiji Gibraltar Grenada Guernsey Haiti Hong Kong Isle of Man Jamaica Jersey Kenya Kiribati Lesotho Malaysia Mauritius Micronesia Montserrat Panama Peru Philippines Rwanda Saint Helena Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Samoa Singapore Tanzania Tonga Turks and Caicos Islands Tuvalu Vanuatu Zambia

Visa on arrival (21)

Bahrain Bangladesh Burundi Cambodia Comoros Egypt Guinea-Bissau Indonesia Laos Macao Madagascar Malawi Maldives Marshall Islands Nauru Nepal Palau Pitcairn Islands Saint Lucia Timor-Leste Zimbabwe

eTA — electronic travel authorisation (9)

Canada Guam Israel Northern Mariana Islands Seychelles South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Sri Lanka Suriname United Kingdom

e-⁠Visa — applied for online in advance (53)

Albania Armenia Australia Barbados Benin Bhutan Burkina Faso Cameroon Chad Christmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands Cuba Côte d’Ivoire DR Congo Djibouti El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Ethiopia Gabon Ghana Guinea Heard Island and McDonald Islands India Iran Iraq Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Liberia Libya Mauritania Moldova Mongolia Mozambique New Zealand Nigeria Niue Norfolk Island Oman Pakistan Qatar Russia Sao Tome and Principe Sierra Leone Solomon Islands Somalia South Sudan Tajikistan Thailand Togo Trinidad and Tobago Uganda Venezuela Vietnam

Visa required (117)

Afghanistan Algeria American Samoa Andorra Argentina Aruba Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bolivia Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba Bosnia and Herzegovina Bouvet Island Brazil British Indian Ocean Territory Brunei Bulgaria Cape Verde Central African Republic Chile China Congo Costa Rica Croatia Curaçao Cyprus Czechia Denmark Eritrea Estonia Faroe Islands Finland France French Guiana French Polynesia French Southern Territories Gambia Georgia Germany Greece Greenland Guadeloupe Guatemala Guyana Honduras Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Japan Jordan Kuwait Latvia Lebanon Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Mali Malta Martinique Mayotte Mexico Monaco Montenegro Morocco Myanmar Namibia Netherlands New Caledonia Nicaragua Niger North Korea North Macedonia Norway Palestine Paraguay Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Romania Réunion Saint Barthélemy Saint Martin Saint Pierre and Miquelon San Marino Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Sint Maarten Slovakia Slovenia South Africa South Korea Spain Sudan Svalbard and Jan Mayen Sweden Switzerland Syria Taiwan Tokelau Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Ukraine United Arab Emirates United States United States Minor Outlying Islands United States Virgin Islands Uruguay Uzbekistan Vatican City Wallis and Futuna Western Sahara Yemen Åland Islands

What the index measures

  • 248 destinations, countries and territories
  • Strength = visa-free + visa on arrival + eTA; e-⁠Visa is not taken into account.
  • Passports with the same score share a rank

Data sources

  • Government portals of each destination.
  • Immigration authorities, foreign ministries, and official e-⁠Visa and eTA portals.
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Method

  • How each entry condition is classified
  • The limits of the data and how to check official sources
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