In a beautiful world with visa-required countries, satisfying our wanderlust can be quite intimidating.
Sometime in 2015, the Ghanaian passport was ranked 52nd in the World Passport Index 2015. However, the situation changed and a new ranking in the Henley Passport Index (from 1 January 2018) moved the Ghanaian passport to 73rd place and was on the same place as the Dominican Republic and Sierra Leonean passport in terms of freedom of travel.
The Henley & Partners Passport Index, known as the Henley & Partners Passport Index until 2018, is a global ranking of countries based on the freedom of travel enjoyed by their citizens.
Since 2006, Henley & Partners has been analyzing the visa requirements of all countries and territories in the world in collaboration with the International Air Transport Association, based on official data from their global database.
The truth is that the Ghanaian passport may not be as powerful as the US and UK passport or even grant Ghanaians free entry to the countries, but it is one of the most respected passports in Africa.
There are many really good countriesGhanaians can enter without a visa. The general terms and conditions apply as usual. Passports for free entry to any country can change over time, so it’s important to be constantly in touch with visa procedures.
Also, a number of these countries only grant free visas if the intention of a traveler is leisure. So if you plan to use visa-free status to find a job there, you may want to apply for the right visa.
As a member of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS): Ghana benefits from its membership in the field of travel, among other things, as Ghanaian citizens are granted a 90-day free stay in another ECOWAS member state.
AFRICA
- Benin: Visa not required for 90 days
- Burkina Faso: Visa not required
- Cape Verde: Visa not required
- Comoros visa on arrival
- Ivory Coast 3 month(s)
- Djibouti visa on arrival
- Gambia: Visa not required for 90 days
- Guinea: Visa not required
- Guinea-Bissau: Visa not required for 90 days
- Kenya: Visa not required for 90 days
- Liberia: Visa not required
- Madagascar: Visa on arrival for 90 days
- Mali: Visa not required
- Mauritania: Visa on arrival
- Mauritius: Visa not required for 90 days
- Mozambique: Visa on arrival for 30 days
- Niger: Visa not required
- Nigeria: Visa not required
- Rwanda: Visa on arrival
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Senegal: Visa not required for 3 months
- Seychelles: Entry permit on arrival for 3 months
- Sierra Leone: Visa not required
- Swaziland: Visa not required for 30 days
- Tanzania: Visa not required for 3 months
- Togo: Visa not required
- Uganda: Visa not required for 3 months
- Zambia: Visa on arrival for 90 days
- Zimbabwe: Visa not required for 3 months
AMERICA
- Barbados: Visa free for 6 months
- Belize
- Bolivia: Visa on arrival for 90 days
- The British Virgin Islands
- Dominica: Visa free for 6 months
- Ecuador: Visa-free for 90 days
- Grenada: Visa not required for 3 months
- Haiti: Visa not required for 3 months
- Jamaica: Visa not required
- Montserrat: Visa not required
- Maldives: Visa on arrival for 30 days
- Nicaragua: Visa on arrival for 90 days
- St. Kitts and Nevis: Visa not required for 3 months
- St. Lucia: Visa not required for 6 weeks
- St. Vincent and the Grenadines: 30 days no visa required
- Trinidad and Tobago: Visa not required
ASIA
- Bangladesh: Visa free for 3 months
- Cambodia: Visa on arrival for 30 days
- East Timor or Timor-Leste
- Indonesia: Visa not required for 30 days
- Iran: Visa on arrival for 15 days
- Philippines: Visa not required for 30 days
- Singapore: Visa not required for 30 days
OCEANIA
- The Cook Islands: Visa-free for 31 days
- Fiji: Visa-free for 4 months
- Micronesia: Visa not required for 30 days
- Palau Visa on Arrival – Visa 30 Days Free
- Pitcairn Islands: Visa not required for 14 days
- Samoa: Entry permit on arrival for 60 days
- Timor-Leste visa on arrival: Visa 30 days free
- Tuvalu: Visa on arrival for 1 month
- Vanuatu: Visa not required for 30 days
Disputed, Dependent or Restricted Territories
- North Cyprus: Visa not required
- Palestine: Visa not required (arrival by sea to Gaza Strip not allowed)
- South Ossetia: no visa required
- Transnistria: Visa not required (registration required after 24 hours)