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Women's Share of Agricultural Landowners

Women's Share of Agricultural Landowners, 2025 compilation · 87 countries · 3 measures

Among the people in a country who own farmland or hold secure rights to it, this is the share who are women. It is SDG indicator 5.a.1, compiled by FAO from national household surveys and agricultural censuses, and it is one of the few measures of who actually holds the land that most of the world's food is grown on.

This site holds one edition, Women's Share of Agricultural Landowners, 2025 compilation, read from FAO’s own data and stored exactly as published.

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Women's Share of Agricultural Landowners, 2025 compilation
Held
1 edition · 87 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.

Every edition of Women's Share of Agricultural Landowners held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
EditionCountriesChangeReadDownload
Women's Share of Agricultural Landowners, 2025 compilation87—September 29, 2026CSV

Every edition in one file, one row per country per edition: women-landowners-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

026 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.

Every column in the newest file of Women's Share of Agricultural Landowners: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
ColumnWhat it holdsStored asRange, 2025DistinctEmptySpread
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifierThe ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.Text · 3 letters—870
CountrycountryNameThe country’s name, as this file spells it.Text—870
Women's share of owners or rights-bearers of agricultural land (%)women_landownersHeadlineThe headline figure: Women's share of owners or rights-bearers of agricultural land (%).Number · up to 2 decimals2.16Pakistan57.80Malawimiddle 25.64790
Women in agriculture holding land rights (%)women_with_rightsMeasureOf the women in the agricultural population, the share who own or hold secure rights to farmland, in %, from the same survey.Number · up to 2 decimals1.102 share it98.80Montenegromiddle 56.61803
Men in agriculture holding land rights (%)men_with_rightsMeasureOf the men in the agricultural population, the share who own or hold secure rights to farmland, in %, from the same survey.Number · up to 2 decimals13.30Senegal99.20Montenegromiddle 66.28803
Reference yearreference_yearReading yearThe year this country’s reading describes. Readings from different years sit side by side.Year—150

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. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

0387 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.

All regions
Countries in each edition of Women's Share of Agricultural Landowners, by continent.
2025
Africa33
Americas4
Asia13
Europe35
Oceania2
All87

One edition, covering 87 countries.

Not in this dataset · 138 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.

04Provenance

Where it comes from

The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.

The site’s method
  1. 1 · Publisher

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

  2. 2 · Their file

    Women's Share of Agricultural Landowners — FAOSTAT (readings 2010–2025)

  3. 3 · Read by this site

    September 29, 2026

    Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.
  4. 4 · Stored as

    1 file, one per edition

  5. 5 · Used on

    Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

Precision

The headline is stored to 2 decimals, 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 reading per country. Beside it are the shares of women and of men working in agriculture who hold land rights, from the same survey.

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.

Every publisher’s terms

Licence · checked September 29, 2026

CC BY 4.0

  • 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), Women's Share of Agricultural Landowners, via Nations Inquiry.

Cite this dataset

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Women's Share of Agricultural Landowners, Women's Share of Agricultural Landowners, 2025 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/women-landowners

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.

07Questions

Women's Share of Agricultural Landowners: questions and answers

What is the Women's Share of Agricultural Landowners?

Among the people in a country who own farmland or hold secure rights to it, this is the share who are women. It is SDG indicator 5.a.1, compiled by FAO from national household surveys and agricultural censuses, and it is one of the few measures of who actually holds the land that most of the world's food is grown on.

Which editions of the Women's Share of Agricultural Landowners can I download?

One: Women's Share of Agricultural Landowners, 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.

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