Lucky Nomads Passport Index
Jamaican passport
The Jamaican passport scores 45.74 out of 100 and ranks 78 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
45.74 / 100
Global rank
#78of 20016
Pure mobility
34.46
Mobility rank #110, shown for reference at 0% weight
+32
Lives better than visa-free counts suggest
Score breakdown
Access weighted by livability
29.97
Access weighted by how livable each reachable destination is, with livability counted squared and longer stays counting for more.
Residence rights
41.85
The freedom to live and work somewhere permanently, with diminishing returns as the free-movement list grows.
Tax friendliness
71.4
How the home country taxes its citizens, including worldwide taxation of citizens abroad.
Optionality and freedom
60.05
Governance, rule of law and openness of the home country.
Free-movement destinations: 10. Visa-free or no-prior-visa destinations: 77.
Where this passport can go
Live and work freely (10)
- Barbados
- Belize
- Dominica
- Grenada
- Guyana
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Suriname
- Trinidad and Tobago
Visa-free (50)
- Angola
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Argentina
- Bahamas
- Bangladesh
- Botswana
- Brazil
- Chile
- Colombia
- Cook Islands
- Curaçao
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- Eswatini
- Fiji
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Haiti
- Hong Kong
- Kiribati
- Lesotho
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- Mauritius
- Mexico
- Micronesia (Federated States of)
- Montserrat
- Namibia
- Niger
- Niue
- Palestinian Territories
- Panama
- Peru
- Philippines
- Pitcairn Islands
- Russia
- Samoa
- Serbia
- Singapore
- South Africa
- Tajikistan
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Uganda
- Uruguay
- Uzbekistan
- Vanuatu
- Venezuela
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Visa on arrival (12)
- Burundi
- Cape Verde
- Comoros
- Egypt
- Guinea-Bissau
- Macao
- Maldives
- Nicaragua
- Palau
- Senegal
- Timor-Leste
- Tuvalu
Electronic travel authorization (5)
- Israel
- Kenya
- Seychelles
- South Korea
- Sri Lanka
eVisa (56)
- Albania
- Armenia
- Australia
- Azerbaijan
- Bahrain
- Benin
- Bhutan
- Bolivia
- Burkina Faso
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Chad
- Cote d'Ivoire
- Cuba
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Djibouti
- El Salvador
- Equatorial Guinea
- Ethiopia
- Gabon
- Georgia
- Guinea
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Liberia
- Libya
- Madagascar
- Mauritania
- Moldova
- Mongolia
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Nepal
- Nigeria
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Papua New Guinea
- Qatar
- Rwanda
- Saint Helena
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- South Sudan
- Syria
- Togo
- Turkey
- Ukraine
- United Arab Emirates
- Vietnam
Visa required (99)
- Afghanistan
- Alderney
- Algeria
- Andorra
- Anguilla
- Aruba
- Austria
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Bermuda
- Bonaire
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- British Virgin Islands
- Brunei Darussalam
- Bulgaria
- Canada
- Cayman Islands
- Central African Republic
- China
- Costa Rica
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Eritrea
- Estonia
- Falkland Islands
- Faroe Islands
- Finland
- France
- French Polynesia
- Germany
- Gibraltar
- Greece
- Greenland
- Guatemala
- Guernsey
- Honduras
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Isle of Man
- Italy
- Japan
- Jersey
- Kosovo
- Kuwait
- Latvia
- Lebanon
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Mali
- Malta
- Marshall Islands
- Monaco
- Montenegro
- Morocco
- Nauru
- Netherlands
- New Caledonia
- New Zealand
- North Macedonia
- Norway
- Paraguay
- Poland
- Portugal
- Puerto Rico
- Republic of the Congo
- Romania
- Saba
- Saint Barthelemy
- Saint Pierre and Miquelon
- Saint-Martin (French part)
- San Marino
- Sark
- Saudi Arabia
- Sint Eustatius
- Sint Maarten (Dutch part)
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Solomon Islands
- Spain
- Sudan
- Svalbard
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Taiwan
- Tokelau
- Tonga
- Tunisia
- Turkmenistan
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- United Kingdom
- United States
- US Virgin Islands
- Vatican City
- Wallis and Futuna
- Yemen
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Researched from official sources, leading global indices and Lucky Nomads' own scoring.