Lucky Nomads Passport Index
Bulgarian passport
The Bulgarian passport scores 83.56 out of 100 and ranks 14 of 200 on the Lucky Nomads Passport Index, our livability-weighted measure of where a passport lets you live, work and settle.
LN Passport score
83.56 / 100
Global rank
#14of 20014
Pure mobility
85.31
Mobility rank #39, shown for reference at 0% weight
+25
Lives better than visa-free counts suggest
Score breakdown
Access weighted by livability
89.78
Access weighted by how livable each reachable destination is, with livability counted squared and longer stays counting for more.
Residence rights
84.4
The freedom to live and work somewhere permanently, with diminishing returns as the free-movement list grows.
Tax friendliness
85
How the home country taxes its citizens, including worldwide taxation of citizens abroad.
Optionality and freedom
63.65
Governance, rule of law and openness of the home country.
Free-movement destinations: 33. Visa-free or no-prior-visa destinations: 167.
Where this passport can go
Live and work freely (33)
Visa-free (113)
- Albania
- Andorra
- Angola
- Anguilla
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Argentina
- Armenia
- Aruba
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- Belarus
- Belize
- Bermuda
- Bolivia
- Bonaire
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Botswana
- Brazil
- British Virgin Islands
- Brunei Darussalam
- Cape Verde
- Cayman Islands
- Chile
- China
- Colombia
- Cook Islands
- Costa Rica
- Curaçao
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Eswatini
- Falkland Islands
- Faroe Islands
- Fiji
- French Polynesia
- Gambia
- Georgia
- Gibraltar
- Greenland
- Grenada
- Guatemala
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Hong Kong
- Japan
- Kazakhstan
- Kiribati
- Kosovo
- Kyrgyzstan
- Lesotho
- Macao
- Malaysia
- Marshall Islands
- Mauritius
- Mexico
- Micronesia (Federated States of)
- Moldova
- Monaco
- Mongolia
- Montenegro
- Montserrat
- Morocco
- New Caledonia
- Nicaragua
- North Macedonia
- Oman
- Palau
- Palestinian Territories
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Philippines
- Pitcairn Islands
- Qatar
- Rwanda
- Saba
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Pierre and Miquelon
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Samoa
- San Marino
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Senegal
- Serbia
- Singapore
- Sint Eustatius
- Sint Maarten (Dutch part)
- Solomon Islands
- South Africa
- South Korea
- Suriname
- Taiwan
- Tajikistan
- Thailand
- Timor-Leste
- Tonga
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- Tuvalu
- Ukraine
- United Arab Emirates
- Uruguay
- Uzbekistan
- Vanuatu
- Vatican City
- Venezuela
- Vietnam
- Wallis and Futuna
- Zambia
Visa on arrival (8)
Electronic travel authorization (13)
eVisa (50)
- Afghanistan
- Australia
- Azerbaijan
- Bahrain
- Benin
- Bhutan
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Chad
- Cote d'Ivoire
- Cuba
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Djibouti
- Egypt
- Equatorial Guinea
- Ethiopia
- Gabon
- Guinea
- Guyana
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Jordan
- Kuwait
- Laos
- Liberia
- Libya
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mauritania
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Namibia
- Nepal
- Nigeria
- Pakistan
- Papua New Guinea
- Russia
- Saudi Arabia
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- South Sudan
- Syria
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Uganda
- Zimbabwe
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Researched from official sources, leading global indices and Lucky Nomads' own scoring.