Bad news for passport bros, for the first time in two decades, the US passport has officially dropped out of the world’s top 10 most powerful passports. The latest Henley Passport Index (the ranking that measures how many countries you can visit without needing a visa) now has the US passport sitting at the 12th spot, sharing the position with Malaysia.
If you’re wondering just how much of a slide this is, you don’t have to look back too far. Just last year, the US was comfortably in seventh place, before slipping down to 10th in July. Now we’re outside the top tier completely. To be fair, if you look at the last decade, the drop is even more dramatic, as the US was actually at the top of the list ten years ago.
