Data study — computed from our own files
Arab passport power league
We ranked 15 Arab nationalities by how many destinations open without an embassy visa — strictly within the countries we track ourselves (~56 per passport). This is not a Henley-style global index; it is a direct computation from our own visa dataset, with the formula published below.
Emirati
49
visa-free destinations
Most visa-free in our set
Saudi
28
visa-free destinations
Gulf-free plus Asia & Africa
Iraqi
0
visa-free destinations
0 visa-free but 10 visa-on-arrival
Full ranking (best first)
The gap between the two most-asked-about passports: Emirati 49 vs Saudi 28 visa-free — a difference of 21 destinations within our list.
Methodology (every figure reproducible)
- Input: src/data/travel/visa.json — 15 nationalities × 56–57 countries, with a status field per destination (visa-free / visa-on-arrival / e-visa / visa-required).
- Computation: we count destinations per status per passport. No-embassy score = count(visa-free) + count(visa-on-arrival) + count(e-visa).
- Scope: results hold "within the countries we track" only (56–57 per passport). Do not compare with global indexes covering 190+ destinations.
- Ranking: descending by no-embassy score, then visa-free count as tie-breaker.
- No external source or API is used — the page is statically generated from the file alone.
Natural next step: cheapest visa-free destinations by nationality — starting with the Saudi passport.