The Power of Passports

In this video I look at how powerful different passports are with regard to access they they give to other countries around the world. 0:00 Introduction 1:10 The History of Passports 3:19 The Actual Power Of Passports 3:59 Which Passport Ranks Highest Globally? 7:09 The System Is Unfair 8:00 Thanks For Watching! References Luuk van der Baaren and Dimitry V. Kochenov, 1 April 2025. The Power of Passports: How Paper Booklets Became Tools of Global Stratification, https://www.migrationpolicy.org/artic... The Passport Index, 2025. Global Passport Power Rank 2025, https://www.passportindex.org/byRank.php Henley & Partners, 2025. The Henley Passport Index, https://www.henleyglobal.com/passport... Asset attribution Archive.org, 2023. The Mutual Weekly No. 101, 1916 https://archive.org/details/copl_000132 Indiana State Library, 5 September 2024. A not-so-brief history of the United States passport, https://blog.library.in.gov/a-not-so-... The New York Public Library Digital Collection. Letter of Safe conduct, 1492 https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/i... The New York Public Library Digital Collection. Letter of Safe conduct, 1483-1876 https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/i... The New York Public Library Digital Collection. Letter of Safe conduct, 1781 https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/i... Soumya-8974, 2025. Visa requirements for British citizens, Wikipedia.org under license CC BY SA 4.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British... Video edited and animated by Sten Ritterfeld, Stenslens.com