The U.S. passport is now tied with Malaysia for 12th place following Trump’s crackdown on legal and illegal immigration.
Archived version: https://archive.is/20251016015709/https://time.com/7325868/us-passport-ranking-dropped-henley/
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Looking at the Henley index, am I the only one that expected 12th to mean that there were only 11 other passports higher than the US. It is actually tied with Malaysia and has 36 other countries above it. In the Olympics if there were two athletes tied for gold then they both get first place and no second place is awarded, but the Henley list is grouping countries with the same scores but still giving out all sequential positions (first , second, third etc). Surely it can be argued that the US is actually 37th.
Edit : This shouldn’t bug me this much but this ranking is misleading. So if next year all the 4th place passports lose access to a place to then equal 5th place, the 5th place passports would be promoted and included with the previous years 4th place passports, and 6th place would change to 5th even though the 6th place passports have technically not changed position.
Yeah, usually ties in ranking mean that some places are just skipped. So it (w|sh)ould be 1,2,3,3,3,6,7,8, etc
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Simple answer: trump fascism and blatant racism
Aww geez my passport is only ranked nr 5
crackdown on legal […] immigration
That’s just blatant manufacturing consent of persecution of immigrants. If they’re in the US legally, what exactly is Trump “cracking down” on?
