The statistic shows the share of citizens from the United States who own a valid passport from 1989 to 2017. In 2017, 42 percent of the total population of the United States owned a valid passport.

In 2023, there were around 160.7 million valid U.S. passports were in circulation. This represented an increase from the previous year's figure of 151.8 million.

In 2023, a little over 24 million U.S. passports were issued to citizens. This represented a growth over the previous year's figure of 22 million.

Chilean citizens were the Latin Americans holding the most powerful passport in the region as of late 2023. At that time, the Chilean passport granted access to 175 countries, while Argentina and Brazil – following in the ranking – scored 170 visa-free access destinations. Meanwhile, the passport from Barbados was the most powerful Caribbean passport in that same year.

Outbound tourism in Chile

Preliminary figures for 2022 showed that there were more than two million outbound travelers from Chile that year. This denoted an increase of about 322 percent over the previous year, when departures were most likely hampered by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Meanwhile, the Chilean expenditure per capita on international tourism showed that an outbound traveler from the South American country spent approximately 36.48 U.S. dollars in 2023, with this figure forecast to increase by about 25 percent by 2028.

Tourist destinations in Latin America

Mexico was the most visited Latin American country in 2022, with over 38 million international tourists visiting the country that year. Meanwhile, looking at traveler scores for cities in Latin America, five Mexican cities outperformed destinations from other Latin American countries in the ranking in 2023. On the other hand, a 2023 study which utilized a daily price index to calculate the cheapest Latin American city destinations found that Quito, the capital of Ecuador, was the most affordable city for backpackers in the region in 2023.

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic disrupted normal travel in 2020, with governments worldwide imposing emergency restrictions and stay-at-home orders to contain the rise in infections. In 2021, several countries started to discuss the idea of introducing vaccine passports for international travel, allowing vaccinated people to travel abroad, as a way of relaunching the tourism industry during the pandemic. According to an April 2021 study, 86 percent of the survey sample in Indonesia backed this solution. Meanwhile, 62 percent of U.S. respondents approved the idea of relying on vaccine passports for international travel, while only 54 percent of Polish respondents thought the same.

Overall, respondents were less comfortable with facial recognition technology in 2024 compared to 2022. The majority of respondents were comfortable with facial recognition technology being applied in passport controls, as well as for logging into a device. However, respondents were not as relaxed when the technology was applied for attendance tracking or retail purchases. Only 16 percent of respondents were comfortable with facial recognition technology applied to emotion recognition, a significant drop compared to 2022.