Passport data show 64.2% access across Africa through visa-free, visa-on-arrival or other simplified arrangements, and electronic travel authorization.
MONROVIA, LIBERIA – New data in the Liberia Passport Ranking show that Liberian passport holders can reach 34 African destinations through visa-free entry, visa on arrival or other simplified entry arrangements, and electronic travel authorization. The figure represents 64.2% of African destinations covered by the report. Within Africa, 18 destinations are listed as visa-free, 15 under visa on arrival or another simplified entry arrangement, and one under electronic travel authorization.
The regional result stands above Liberia’s worldwide access rate of 28.8%. Globally, the passport has a Mobility Score of 57, calculated from 27 visa-free destinations, 28 destinations in the visa-on-arrival or simplified-entry category, and two eTA destinations. A further 141 destinations are listed as requiring a visa before travel. The report places Liberia 162nd in the global passport ranking and 42nd among 54 African countries.
Passport Reports lists the Liberia data as last checked on 9 September 2026 and last updated on 29 June 2026. The current figures satisfy the report’s mobility calculation: 27 visa-free destinations plus 28 visa-on-arrival or simplified-entry destinations plus two eTA destinations equals the Mobility Score of 57.
Africa provides Liberia’s broadest regional access
Africa is the strongest regional access area in the report for Liberian passport holders. Visa-free destinations include Benin, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, the Central African Republic, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo and Zambia. Cabo Verde is listed in the visa-free category with the EASE procedure, while several destinations carry stated maximum stays, including Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Senegal and Zambia at 90 days, Kenya at 60 days, and Rwanda and Togo at 30 days.
A further 15 African destinations fall under visa on arrival or another simplified entry arrangement. They are Burundi, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, South Sudan, Comoros, DR Congo, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Tanzania and Uganda. The report notes that electronic visa options are also available for many of these destinations, including Burundi, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Gabon, South Sudan, DR Congo, Madagascar, Mauritania, Mozambique and Namibia. Seychelles is the sole African destination in the eTA category, with tourist registration and a 90-day stay indicated.
Nineteen African destinations are listed as visa required, leaving the continent with an overall access split of 64.2% accessible through the three mobility categories and 35.8% requiring a visa. Among the visa-required African destinations are Angola, Botswana, Chad, Algeria, Eritrea, Eswatini, Morocco, South Africa, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Lesotho, Libya, Malawi, Egypt, São Tomé and Príncipe, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia and Zimbabwe.
Access narrows outside Africa
The regional gap is most pronounced in Europe. All 47 European destinations in the report are listed as visa required for Liberian passport holders, producing a 0.0% access rate through the visa-free, visa-on-arrival or simplified-entry, and eTA categories. The same 0.0% access result appears for the six Gulf destinations, the five Central Asian destinations and the 17 destinations grouped under the Middle East, with every destination in those three regional groups listed as visa required.
Asia records a total access rate of 22.0%. The Philippines and Singapore are the two visa-free destinations, with Singapore carrying an arrival-card requirement and a 30-day stay in the report. Eight Asian destinations are listed under visa on arrival or another simplified entry arrangement: Bangladesh, Macao SAR, India, Cambodia, Maldives, Malaysia, Timor-Leste and Vietnam. Sri Lanka is the region’s single eTA destination, while 39 Asian destinations require a visa.
Oceania has a total access rate of 28.6%. Micronesia is the only visa-free destination, while Palau, Samoa and Tuvalu are listed under visa on arrival or simplified entry, and 10 destinations require a visa. In South America, the access rate is 25.0%, with Ecuador and Suriname in the visa-free category and Bolivia under visa on arrival or simplified entry. Suriname carries a tourist-card procedure and a 90-day stay in the report.
The Caribbean records 37.5% total access, including five visa-free destinations and one visa-on-arrival or simplified-entry destination. North America records 21.7% total access, with four visa-free destinations, one visa-on-arrival or simplified-entry destination and 18 visa-required destinations. The report’s key-destination section separately lists the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and the Schengen Area as visa required for Liberian passport holders.
Seven-year series shows a one-point mobility decline in 2026
The report’s annual series shows Liberia’s Mobility Score at 47 in 2020, a year marked in the dataset for the impact of COVID-19, before rising to 51 in 2021 and 60 in both 2022 and 2023. It then moved to 58 in 2024 and remained at 58 in 2025 before declining by one point to 57 in 2026. Over the same period, the global rank moved from 147th in 2020 to 154th in 2021, 158th in 2022, 160th in 2023, 158th in 2024, 155th in 2025 and 162nd in 2026.
Context rankings distinguish outbound and inbound access
Beyond the global ranking, Liberia is 42nd of 54 African Union countries in the report’s African Union comparison, 107th of 132 G77 countries and 146th of 159 World Trade Organization members. Among countries where English is an official language, Liberia is ranked 53rd of 60, and among presidential republics it is 53rd of 57. These category rankings are separate from the global passport rank and measure Liberia only against the relevant comparison group.
The report also places Liberia 135th of 199 in its Welcoming Countries ranking, a measure of the entry ease Liberia provides to foreign passport holders rather than the outbound access of Liberian passport holders. The distinction is important because the two measures run in opposite directions: passport ranking covers where Liberians can travel, while the welcoming measure covers how foreign passport holders can enter Liberia.
The reciprocity section adds a further inbound-outbound comparison. In the inbound direction, Liberia visa requirements are treated separately from the travel access available to Liberian citizens. The United Arab Emirates is the only country listed in the category where its passport holders can enter Liberia through visa-free, electronic-authorization or arrival access while Liberian passport holders are listed as requiring a visa for the UAE. In the reverse category, the report lists 42 destinations whose passport holders require a visa for Liberia even though Liberian passport holders receive visa-free, eTA, visa-on-arrival or another simplified form of access to those destinations.
Those 42 destinations span Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, South America and Oceania. Examples include Bangladesh, Barbados, Bolivia, Burundi, Djibouti, Dominica, Ecuador, Ethiopia, the Philippines, India, Kenya, Madagascar, Maldives, Malaysia, Mauritius, Namibia, Samoa, Seychelles, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Tanzania, Uganda, Vietnam and Zambia. The report presents these as reciprocity signals only and does not attribute causes or policy motives to the differences.
Regional access remains the central 2026 finding
Taken together, the 2026 data show a clear regional pattern: Liberia’s passport reaches 64.2% of African destinations through the report’s mobility categories, compared with 28.8% of destinations worldwide. The Mobility Score is 57, comprising 27 visa-free destinations, 28 destinations under visa on arrival or other simplified arrangements, and two eTA destinations, while 141 destinations require a visa. The passport is ranked 162nd globally and 42nd among 54 African countries, with the broadest practical access concentrated within Africa.
Source: Passport Reports
