The Sri Lankan passport has become one of the most un-welcomed passports in the world, according to latest Visa Restrictions Index. Sri Lanka has been ranked 88 of 93 positions, alongside Kosovo, Lebanon and Sudan who also share the same slot. Myanmar and Bangladesh are ahead.
Citizens of Group 1 were Finland, Sweden and the United Kingdom held the best passports for global travel last year, with visa-free access to 173 countries. New Zealand is in Group 5 being ahead of Australia in Group 6 .
This grouping is not indicative of the risks in holding these pass ports , such as being targeted by terrorists where UK, US , Australia etc would be on the no 1 target group, being war mongers. SL PP is not on the target list of Islamic terrorists.
The global index and the methodology are as follows;
