South African passport
Lucky Nomads Passport Index
LN Passport score
29.94
Global rank
#123
Pure mobility
40.34
Score breakdown
Access weighted by livability
32.71
Access weighted by how livable each reachable destination is, with longer stays counting for more.
Residence rights
2.22
The freedom to live and work somewhere permanently, not just visit.
Tax friendliness
30.1
How the home country taxes its citizens, including worldwide taxation of citizens abroad.
Optionality and freedom
67.7
Governance, rule of law and openness of the home country.
Free-movement destinations: 1. Visa-free or no-prior-visa destinations: 87.
Where this passport can go
Live and work freely (1)
- Svalbard
Visa-free (71)
- Angola
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Argentina
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- Belize
- Benin
- Bolivia
- Botswana
- Brazil
- British Virgin Islands
- Cayman Islands
- Chile
- Cook Islands
- Costa Rica
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Eswatini
- Falkland Islands
- Fiji
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Georgia
- Ghana
- Grenada
- Guatemala
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Hong Kong
- Jamaica
- Kenya
- Kiribati
- Kosovo
- Lesotho
- Macao
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- Mauritius
- Micronesia (Federated States of)
- Montserrat
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Nicaragua
- Niue
- Oman
- Palestinian Territories
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Philippines
- Pitcairn Islands
- Qatar
- Russia
- Rwanda
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Singapore
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Togo
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Tunisia
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- Uruguay
- Vanuatu
- Venezuela
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Visa on arrival (11)
- Burundi
- Cape Verde
- Comoros
- Guinea-Bissau
- Maldives
- Marshall Islands
- Palau
- Samoa
- Senegal
- Timor-Leste
- Tuvalu
Electronic travel authorization (4)
- Israel
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Seychelles
- South Korea
eVisa (55)
- Albania
- Anguilla
- Armenia
- Ascension
- Australia
- Azerbaijan
- Bahrain
- Bhutan
- Burkina Faso
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Chad
- Colombia
- Cote d'Ivoire
- Cuba
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Djibouti
- Egypt
- Equatorial Guinea
- Ethiopia
- Guinea
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Japan
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Liberia
- Libya
- Madagascar
- Mauritania
- Mongolia
- Myanmar
- Nepal
- Nigeria
- Pakistan
- Papua New Guinea
- Saint Helena
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Saudi Arabia
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- South Sudan
- Sri Lanka
- Suriname
- Syria
- Tajikistan
- Tristan da Cunha
- Turkey
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- Vietnam
Visa required (92)
- Afghanistan
- Alderney
- Algeria
- Andorra
- Aruba
- Austria
- Bangladesh
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Bermuda
- Bonaire
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Brunei Darussalam
- Bulgaria
- Canada
- Central African Republic
- China
- Croatia
- Curaçao
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Eritrea
- Estonia
- Faroe Islands
- Finland
- France
- French Polynesia
- Germany
- Gibraltar
- Greece
- Greenland
- Guernsey
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Isle of Man
- Italy
- Jersey
- Kuwait
- Latvia
- Lebanon
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Mali
- Malta
- Mexico
- Moldova
- Monaco
- Montenegro
- Morocco
- Nauru
- Netherlands
- New Caledonia
- New Zealand
- Niger
- North Macedonia
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Puerto Rico
- Republic of the Congo
- Romania
- Saba
- Saint Barthelemy
- Saint Pierre and Miquelon
- Saint-Martin (French part)
- San Marino
- Sark
- Serbia
- Sint Eustatius
- Sint Maarten (Dutch part)
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Solomon Islands
- Spain
- Sudan
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Taiwan
- Tokelau
- Tonga
- Turkmenistan
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom
- United States
- US Virgin Islands
- Uzbekistan
- Vatican City
- Wallis and Futuna
- Yemen
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