Citizenship Attainability Index

Passport indexes rank where a passport gets you. This index ranks something nobody else measures: how attainable the citizenship itself is— how many realistic legal doors each country's nationality law opens, computed from 1,841 primary-source-documented routes across 62 countries.

#	Country	Score	Path breadth	Ancestry	Dual-friendly	Family/Nat.	Paths
1	Spain	100	100	100	100	100	32
2	Ukraine	100	100	100	100	100	48
3	Germany	98	100	100	100	90	21
4	Antigua and Barbuda	97	90	100	100	100	23
5	Bulgaria	97	90	100	100	100	21
6	Greece	97	90	100	100	100	44
7	Hungary	97	90	100	100	100	46
8	Malta	97	90	100	100	100	32
9	Portugal	97	90	100	100	100	35
10	Switzerland	97	90	100	100	100	33
11	Austria	96.7	100	100	87	100	23
12	France	96	100	100	100	80	25
13	Romania	95	90	100	100	90	19
14	Dominica	94.5	90	90	100	100	19
15	Argentina	94	80	100	100	100	37
16	Armenia	94	80	100	100	100	37
17	Australia	94	80	100	100	100	38
18	Belgium	94	80	100	100	100	29
19	Brazil	94	80	100	100	100	36
20	Denmark	94	80	100	100	100	47
21	Ireland	94	80	100	100	100	29
22	Italy	94	80	100	100	100	35
23	Mexico	94	80	100	100	100	49
24	Poland	94	80	100	100	100	27
25	United Kingdom	94	80	100	100	100	35
26	United States	94	80	100	100	100	28
27	Croatia	93.4	80	100	98	100	43
28	Grenada	91.5	80	90	100	100	19
29	Cyprus	91	70	100	100	100	34
30	Moldova	91	70	100	100	100	36
31	Netherlands	91	70	100	100	100	77
32	New Zealand	91	70	100	100	100	26
33	Norway	91	70	100	100	100	31
34	Slovakia	91	70	100	100	100	22
35	Turkey	91	70	100	100	100	45
36	Canada	89	70	100	100	90	22
37	Czech Republic	89	70	100	100	90	19
38	Saint Kitts and Nevis	89	80	80	100	100	18
39	Montenegro	88.8	90	100	83	80	18
40	Albania	88	60	100	100	100	17
41	Israel	88	80	100	100	70	18
42	Luxembourg	88	80	100	100	70	30
43	Slovenia	88	60	100	100	100	47
44	South Korea	87.2	90	100	61	100	23
45	Georgia	87	80	100	80	90	15
46	Iceland	86.4	60	100	93	100	46
47	Japan	86.3	100	100	61	80	18
48	Lithuania	86.2	90	100	73	80	22
49	Saint Lucia	85.6	80	80	94	90	18
50	Finland	85.5	60	90	100	100	25
51	Philippines	83.7	80	100	67	90	21
52	South Africa	83	50	100	100	90	13
53	Estonia	81.8	60	100	75	100	28
54	Panama	72.3	50	90	75	80	12
55	Latvia	72	40	100	100	50	18
56	India	65.2	50	100	53	60	17
57	United Arab Emirates	64.4	50	70	64	80	11
58	Singapore	55.9	60	90	6	70	18
59	Hong Kong SAR	54.3	20	70	75	60	8
60	Chile	47	20	0	100	80	11
61	Serbia	26.1	10	0	92	0	26
62	Sweden	25	0	0	100	0	53

Methodology

Each country's score is a weighted composite of four components, each 0–100, computed only from fields with near-complete coverage in our route database: path breadth(30% — how many of the ten acquisition categories the country's law covers: descent, naturalization, marriage, investment, birth, restoration, historical, adoption, special programs, citizenship-by-naturalization variants), ancestry openness (25% — presence and depth of descent/historical/restoration routes), dual-citizenship friendliness (25% — the share of routes that do not require renouncing your current citizenship), and family & naturalization depth (20%). Records that are not citizenship acquisitions (residence permits, overseas statuses, loss procedures, pending litigation) are excluded.

Processing times and costs are deliberately excluded until their data coverage is complete — a sparse signal would silently skew the ranking. The index is descriptive of documented legal pathways, updated as legislation changes; it is not advice and not a claim about which country is "best" for any individual. Educational information — not legal advice.