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which benefitted from significant improvement to their travel freedom scores due to the opening up of visa-free tourist and business travel to Europe’s Schengen area: • Timor-Leste was the highest climber, moving up 31 places to 95th place


• St Vincent and the Grenadines, and the Commonwealth of Dominica each climbed 25 places on the index, and now rank 65th and 68th, respectively


• The third highest climber was Grenada, rising 24 positions to 67th place


• Senegal dropped the most, losing 16 positions to rank 104th


• Libya and Saudi Arabia lost 15 and 14 places on the QNI, dropping to 145th and 82nd position, respectively


Top risers and fallers in 2012-2016 Over the last five years, Colombia has risen the most on the QNI, climbing by 48 positions to 62nd place. Timor- Leste, which climbed the highest in the latest ranking, is also the second highest climber from 2012-2016, rising by 28 positions overall. Most of the nationalities that lost


significant quality have been affected by political instability or serious conflicts in


The Henley & Partners - Kochenov Quality of Nationality Index (QNI) 2nd their respective countries. Such


developments have a severe impact on their peace and stability score as well as an indirect impact on the human development, economic strength and travel freedom elements of the index. The Syrian Arab Republic fell the most


edition 2016


over the last five years, decreasing its rank by 27 places to settle on 154th position on the 2016 index. Libya, the second largest faller on


the index between 2015-2016, is also the second largest faller over the last five years, dropping 21 positions to 145th place.


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