Frost & Sullivan Predicts Mandatory Implementation of e-Passports for ICAO Member Countries by 2015

Since 191 countries are ICAO members, that would pretty much make biometric passports the world standard.

Boost to Adoption of e-Gate Systems (findBIOMERTRICS)

Travel documents are for terrorists just as important as weapons, according to the key finding from the 9/11 Commission Report. This is the reason border control systems based on biometric applications have become the solution of choice in identifying potential threats. There is also considerable emphasis on the identification of immigrants using e-Passports and e-Visas to channel biometric data to destination countries to reduce illegal immigration.