Dataset · FAO
Legal Guarantees of Women's Equal Rights to Land
Legal Guarantees of Women's Equal Rights to Land, 2025 compilation · 97 countries
This measures how far a country's laws — its constitution and its civil, land and family law — guarantee women the same rights as men to own and control land. FAO assesses each legal framework against six tests and reports a level from 1, the weakest guarantees, to 6, the strongest; it is SDG indicator 5.a.2.
This site holds one edition, Legal Guarantees of Women's Equal Rights to Land, 2025 compilation, read from FAO’s own data and stored exactly as published.
Legal Guarantees of Women's Equal Rights to Land · the file
- Newest
- Legal Guarantees of Women's Equal Rights to Land, 2025 compilation
- Held
- 1 edition · 97 rows
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
01One edition
Every edition
Newest first. Each opens the full table for that edition, and each downloads as a CSV.
| Edition | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Legal Guarantees of Women's Equal Rights to Land, 2025 compilation | 97 | — | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
Every edition in one file, one row per country per edition: women-land-rights-law-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
024 columns
What’s in the file
Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.
| Column | What it holds | Stored as | Range, 2025 | Distinct | Empty | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 97 | 0 | |
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 97 | 0 | |
Level of legal guarantees of women's equal rights to land (1–6)land_rights_levelHeadline | The headline figure: Level of legal guarantees of women's equal rights to land ownership and control, 1 (lowest) to 6 (highest). | Number · whole numbers | 117 share it66 share itmiddle 3 | 6 | 0 | |
Reference yearreference_yearReading year | The year this country’s reading describes. Readings from different years sit side by side. | Year | — | 7 | 0 |
Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the better result.
0397 countries across every edition
Who is covered
How many countries each edition holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.
| 2025 | |
|---|---|
| Africa | 32 |
| Americas | 19 |
| Asia | 27 |
| Europe | 19 |
| Oceania | 0 |
| All | 97 |
One edition, covering 97 countries.
Not in this dataset · 128 places this site covers
FAO gives no figure for these in any edition held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.
Afghanistan
Albania
Algeria
American Samoa
Andorra
Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina
Aruba
Australia
Austria
Bahamas
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belgium
Bermuda
Botswana
Brazil
British Virgin Islands
Brunei
Bulgaria
Burundi
Cabo Verde
Canada
Cayman IslandsChannel Islands
China
Comoros
Cook Islands
Cuba
Curaçao
Czechia
Denmark
Dominica
DR Congo
Egypt
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Eswatini
Faroe Islands
Fiji
France
French Polynesia
Gabon
Gibraltar
Greece
Greenland
Grenada
Guam
Honduras
Hong Kong
Iceland
India
Iran
Ireland
Isle of Man
Jamaica
Japan
Kiribati
Kosovo
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Latvia
Libya
Liechtenstein
Luxembourg
Macau
Malaysia
Maldives
Malta
Marshall Islands
Mauritius
Micronesia
Monaco
Montserrat
Nauru
Netherlands
New Caledonia
New Zealand
Nigeria
Niue
North KoreaNorthern Cyprus
Northern Mariana Islands
Norway
Palau
Palestine
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Philippines
Poland
Puerto Rico
Republic of the Congo
Romania
Saint Martin
Samoa
San Marino
São Tomé and Príncipe
Saudi Arabia
Seychelles
Sint Maarten
Solomon Islands
SomaliaSomaliland
South Africa
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Syria
Taiwan
Tajikistan
Timor-Leste
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia
Turks and Caicos Islands
Tuvalu
Ukraine
United Kingdom
United States
United States Virgin Islands
Vanuatu
Vatican City
Venezuela
Zambia04Provenance
Where it comes from
The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.
1 · Publisher
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
2 · Their file
Legal Guarantees of Women's Equal Rights to Land — FAOSTAT (readings 2019–2025)
3 · Read by this site
September 29, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
1 file, one per edition
It downloads as a CSV: women-land-rights-law-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
Precision
The headline is stored in whole numbers, as published.
Rounded by this site
Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.
Changed by this site
Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.
FAOSTAT's SDG Indicators domain, read from FAO's own bulk download, latest assessment per country. Regional averages in the same file are left out.
05Reuse
Licence and credit
What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.
Licence · checked September 29, 2026
- Share and redistribute it
- Adapt it and build on it
- Use it commercially
- Credit the publisher
- Say what you changed
Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.
A credit line
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Legal Guarantees of Women's Equal Rights to Land, via Nations Inquiry.
Cite this dataset
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Legal Guarantees of Women's Equal Rights to Land, Legal Guarantees of Women's Equal Rights to Land, 2025 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/women-land-rights-law
The publisher’s own citation: FAO. 2026. FAOSTAT: SDG Indicators. Accessed on 29 September 2026. https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/SDGB Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.
06Where it is used
Around the site
Where these numbers appear on this site, and the datasets nearest to it.
Charted
Legal Guarantees of Women's Equal Rights to Land by countryWho is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.
Subjects
Near neighbours
- Women, Business and the LawWorld Bank Group · 55 held · 1971–2026
- Women's Political Empowerment IndexV-Dem Institute · 36 held · 1990–2025
- Social Institutions and Gender IndexOECD · 1 held · 2023
07Questions
Legal Guarantees of Women's Equal Rights to Land: questions and answers
What is the Legal Guarantees of Women's Equal Rights to Land?
This measures how far a country's laws — its constitution and its civil, land and family law — guarantee women the same rights as men to own and control land. FAO assesses each legal framework against six tests and reports a level from 1, the weakest guarantees, to 6, the strongest; it is SDG indicator 5.a.2.
Which editions of the Legal Guarantees of Women's Equal Rights to Land can I download?
One: Legal Guarantees of Women's Equal Rights to Land, 2025 compilation, as a CSV file.
Does FAO rank countries on it?
No, and this site does not order it either. The files hold values only.
Can I use it commercially?
Yes, under CC BY 4.0, with credit to FAO. The licence text is linked on this page.