Lucky Nomads Passport Index
French passport
The French passport scores 82.08 out of 100 and ranks 17 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
82.08 / 100
Global rank
#17of 2004
Pure mobility
95.48
Mobility rank #8, shown for reference at 0% weight
-9
Travels better than it lets you live
Score breakdown
Access weighted by livability
98.67
Access weighted by how livable each reachable destination is, with livability counted squared and longer stays counting for more.
Residence rights
93.17
The freedom to live and work somewhere permanently, with diminishing returns as the free-movement list grows.
Tax friendliness
35.3
How the home country taxes its citizens, including worldwide taxation of citizens abroad.
Optionality and freedom
81.75
Governance, rule of law and openness of the home country.
Free-movement destinations: 41. Visa-free or no-prior-visa destinations: 185.
Where this passport can go
Live and work freely (41)
- Andorra
- Austria
- Belgium
- Bulgaria
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- French Polynesia
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Italy
- Latvia
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Malta
- Monaco
- Netherlands
- New Caledonia
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Saint Barthelemy
- Saint Pierre and Miquelon
- Saint-Martin (French part)
- San Marino
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Svalbard
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Vatican City
- Wallis and Futuna
Visa-free (112)
- Albania
- 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
- Gambia
- Georgia
- Gibraltar
- Greenland
- Grenada
- Guatemala
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Hong Kong
- Jamaica
- Japan
- Kazakhstan
- Kiribati
- Kosovo
- Kyrgyzstan
- Lesotho
- Macao
- Malaysia
- Marshall Islands
- Mauritius
- Mexico
- Micronesia (Federated States of)
- Moldova
- Mongolia
- Montenegro
- Montserrat
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Nicaragua
- Niue
- North Macedonia
- Oman
- Palau
- Palestinian Territories
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Philippines
- Pitcairn Islands
- Qatar
- Rwanda
- Saba
- Saint Helena
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Samoa
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Senegal
- Serbia
- Seychelles
- Singapore
- Sint Eustatius
- Sint Maarten (Dutch part)
- Solomon Islands
- South Africa
- Sri Lanka
- Suriname
- Taiwan
- Tajikistan
- Thailand
- Timor-Leste
- Tokelau
- Tonga
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- Tuvalu
- Ukraine
- United Arab Emirates
- Uruguay
- Uzbekistan
- Vanuatu
- Venezuela
- Vietnam
- Zambia
Visa on arrival (17)
- Bangladesh
- Burundi
- Comoros
- Egypt
- Ethiopia
- Guinea-Bissau
- Indonesia
- Lebanon
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Maldives
- Namibia
- Nepal
- Papua New Guinea
- Sierra Leone
- Tanzania
- Zimbabwe
Electronic travel authorization (15)
- Alderney
- Canada
- Guernsey
- Isle of Man
- Israel
- Jersey
- Kenya
- New Zealand
- Puerto Rico
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Sark
- South Korea
- United Kingdom
- United States
- US Virgin Islands
eVisa (35)
- Afghanistan
- Australia
- Azerbaijan
- Bahrain
- Benin
- Bhutan
- Burkina Faso
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Chad
- Cote d'Ivoire
- Cuba
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Djibouti
- Equatorial Guinea
- Gabon
- Guinea
- India
- Iran
- Iraq
- Jordan
- Kuwait
- Laos
- Libya
- Mauritania
- Myanmar
- Nigeria
- Pakistan
- Russia
- Saudi Arabia
- Somalia
- South Sudan
- Syria
- Togo
- Uganda
Visa required (12)
- Algeria
- Central African Republic
- Eritrea
- Ghana
- Liberia
- Mali
- Nauru
- Niger
- Republic of the Congo
- Sudan
- Turkmenistan
- Yemen
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Researched from official sources, leading global indices and Lucky Nomads' own scoring.