Digital Travel Credentials to Surpass 1.2 Billion Users by 2035

A Juniper Research report projects global digital travel credentials — powered by biometric face-matching and digital ID systems — will grow from 105 million users in 2027 to over 1.2 billion by 2035, with physical passports phased out by 2040. This rapid convergence of biometric identity, government-controlled digital credentials, and international trust frameworks represents a historic shift toward a globally unified system of human identification and movement control. Scripture warns of a coming global system requiring identification to buy, sell, and participate in society — a framework Revelation 13:16-17 describes as marking every person on earth.