Africa Visa Openness Report 2024

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February 06, 2025

The fact that Africans still require visas to enter most African countries remains one of the starkest contradictions to the continent’s aspirations for regional integration.

In this ninth edition of the Africa Visa Openness Index (AVOI), the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the African Union Commission (AUC) present a mixed set of findings on Africa’s progress toward greater mobility.

The AVOI assesses how open African countries are to travelers from other African nations by analyzing visa requirements. It evaluates:

The number of African countries whose citizens must obtain a visa before traveling.
The number of countries whose citizens can obtain a visa on arrival.
The number of countries whose citizens can enter visa-free.

Each country is assigned an AVOI score and ranked accordingly.

Data for this year’s edition was collected between July and August 2024, with the International Air Transport Association (IATA) serving as the primary data source, as in previous editions.

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