Most passports are affordable, The affordability factor for each country is key to the study. A dollar in North America may not be the same as one in central Africa. To determine the affordability of the passport, the average hourly wage was used to calculate the cost of the passport in hours worked.

The top of the list is Malawi, whose $118 passport would take over 983 hours to purchase. Passports to the world can be purchased in different countries depending on where you live, but they allow you to travel anywhere in the world. Not all passports are created equal. First, passports can be more costly than others. Some cost hundreds of hours for a worker in a country, while others take only a few minutes. The passports may not be able to grant access to all countries, or to most of the world.

CashNetUSA compiled a list of the best and most expensive passports around the globe, taking into account average local wages and the most current passport pricing information.

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Expensive Passports A passport costs an average of $74 across the world, but it takes 46.6 hours to earn that amount. The average American worker takes 4.6 hours to get a passport. It costs $145 to get a United States passport. Although the average cost of a North American passport is quite high, it is not impossible to get one in a country within the continent.

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