The ranking was seen improved in the Individual Passport Power Ranking (IPPR) 2020, released by the Passport Index, leading real-time passport ranking tool, Pro Pakistani reported.
The IPPR is based on Mobility Score, meaning the number of countries an individual can visit without visa or obtain a visa upon arrival, and the statistics of United Nations Development Program’s Human Development Index (UNDP HDI). A high Mobility Score essentially means that IPPR will also be higher. In case of a tie between two passports, the UNDP HDI functions as the decision maker.
Since Pakistani passport holders enjoy visa-free access to seven countries as well as visa on arrival facility to 26 countries, it has a Mobility Score of 33.
The current improvement can bee seen as a major development for passport, which has, time and again, ranked negatively on the global lists.
In March 2019, the Henley Passport Index (HPI) - an annual global ranking of countries according to the travel freedom of their citizens - placed the Pakistani passport at #102 in its 2019 list of most and least powerful passports of the world list.