>>17688536>so why the sudden increase in passport ownershipPassports weren't required to enter Mexico and Canada until about 2006. More Americans got passports in the 90s and 2000s because they were making more money and able to travel abroad.
Also, do some basic math. In 2001 the population of America was 285 million. 20 percent of those held a passport which is 57 million which was almost the entirety of knife crime island's population.