Nigerian passport cover
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Nigerian passport

Lucky Nomads Passport Index

LN Passport score

26.78

Global rank

#135

Pure mobility

15.34

Score breakdown

Access weighted by livability

15.16

Access weighted by how livable each reachable destination is, with longer stays counting for more.

Residence rights

18.77

The freedom to live and work somewhere permanently, not just visit.

Tax friendliness

62.5

How the home country taxes its citizens, including worldwide taxation of citizens abroad.

Optionality and freedom

39.3

Governance, rule of law and openness of the home country.

Free-movement destinations: 11. Visa-free or no-prior-visa destinations: 43.

Where this passport can go

Live and work freely (11)

  • Benin
  • Cape Verde
  • Cote d'Ivoire
  • Gambia
  • Ghana
  • Guinea
  • Guinea-Bissau
  • Liberia
  • Senegal
  • Sierra Leone
  • Togo

Visa-free (19)

  • Barbados
  • Burkina Faso
  • Cameroon
  • Chad
  • Cook Islands
  • Dominica
  • Fiji
  • Haiti
  • Kenya
  • Kiribati
  • Mali
  • Micronesia (Federated States of)
  • Montserrat
  • Niger
  • Niue
  • Palestinian Territories
  • Pitcairn Islands
  • Saint Kitts and Nevis
  • Vanuatu

Visa on arrival (13)

  • Comoros
  • Iran
  • Lebanon
  • Madagascar
  • Maldives
  • Mauritius
  • Mozambique
  • Namibia
  • Palau
  • Rwanda
  • Samoa
  • Timor-Leste
  • Tuvalu

eVisa (45)

  • Afghanistan
  • Albania
  • Angola
  • Antigua and Barbuda
  • Ascension
  • Bahamas
  • Bahrain
  • Bhutan
  • Botswana
  • Burundi
  • Cambodia
  • Colombia
  • Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Djibouti
  • Equatorial Guinea
  • Ethiopia
  • Gabon
  • Hong Kong
  • Iraq
  • Kazakhstan
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Lesotho
  • Libya
  • Malawi
  • Malaysia
  • Mauritania
  • Pakistan
  • Philippines
  • Qatar
  • Saint Helena
  • Sao Tome and Principe
  • Somalia
  • South Africa
  • South Sudan
  • Suriname
  • Syria
  • Tajikistan
  • Thailand
  • Trinidad and Tobago
  • Tristan da Cunha
  • Uganda
  • United Arab Emirates
  • Vietnam
  • Zambia
  • Zimbabwe

Visa required (146)

  • Alderney
  • Algeria
  • Andorra
  • Anguilla
  • Argentina
  • Armenia
  • Aruba
  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Azerbaijan
  • Bangladesh
  • Belarus
  • Belgium
  • Belize
  • Bermuda
  • Bolivia
  • Bonaire
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Brazil
  • British Virgin Islands
  • Brunei Darussalam
  • Bulgaria
  • Canada
  • Cayman Islands
  • Central African Republic
  • Chile
  • China
  • Costa Rica
  • Croatia
  • Cuba
  • Curaçao
  • Cyprus
  • Czech Republic
  • Denmark
  • Dominican Republic
  • Ecuador
  • Egypt
  • El Salvador
  • Eritrea
  • Estonia
  • Eswatini
  • Falkland Islands
  • Faroe Islands
  • Finland
  • France
  • French Polynesia
  • Georgia
  • Germany
  • Gibraltar
  • Greece
  • Greenland
  • Grenada
  • Guatemala
  • Guernsey
  • Guyana
  • Honduras
  • Hungary
  • Iceland
  • India
  • Indonesia
  • Ireland
  • Isle of Man
  • Israel
  • Italy
  • Jamaica
  • Japan
  • Jersey
  • Jordan
  • Kosovo
  • Kuwait
  • Laos
  • Latvia
  • Liechtenstein
  • Lithuania
  • Luxembourg
  • Macao
  • Malta
  • Marshall Islands
  • Mexico
  • Moldova
  • Monaco
  • Mongolia
  • Montenegro
  • Morocco
  • Myanmar
  • Nauru
  • Nepal
  • Netherlands
  • New Caledonia
  • New Zealand
  • Nicaragua
  • North Macedonia
  • Norway
  • Oman
  • Panama
  • Papua New Guinea
  • Paraguay
  • Peru
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Puerto Rico
  • Republic of the Congo
  • Romania
  • Russia
  • Saba
  • Saint Barthelemy
  • Saint Lucia
  • Saint Pierre and Miquelon
  • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
  • Saint-Martin (French part)
  • San Marino
  • Sark
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Serbia
  • Seychelles
  • Singapore
  • Sint Eustatius
  • Sint Maarten (Dutch part)
  • Slovakia
  • Slovenia
  • Solomon Islands
  • South Korea
  • Spain
  • Sri Lanka
  • Sudan
  • Svalbard
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • Taiwan
  • Tanzania
  • Tokelau
  • Tonga
  • Tunisia
  • Turkey
  • Turkmenistan
  • Turks and Caicos Islands
  • Ukraine
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
  • Uruguay
  • US Virgin Islands
  • Uzbekistan
  • Vatican City
  • Venezuela
  • Wallis and Futuna
  • Yemen
Lucky Maillard, Founder of Lucky Nomads

Lucky Maillard

Founder, Lucky Nomads · Wealth manager

Researched from official sources, leading global indices and Lucky Nomads' own scoring.