After five years at the top, Japan dropped to third place as the number of destinations its passport can access without a visa fell, according to the ranking published by London-based immigration consultancy Henley & Partners, South China Morning Post
wrote.
The United States
, which once topped the ranking nearly a decade ago, slid two places to eighth.
In recent years Singapore is a magnet for wealth. The nation of 5.6 million granted citizenship to about 23,100 people last year, and authorities earlier this year ruled out doing so based on the net worth of individuals.