Dataset · FAO
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.
Women's Share of Agricultural Landowners · the file
- Newest
- 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.
| Edition | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women's Share of Agricultural Landowners, 2025 compilation | 87 | — | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
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.
| 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 | — | 87 | 0 | |
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 87 | 0 | |
Women's share of owners or rights-bearers of agricultural land (%)women_landownersHeadline | The headline figure: Women's share of owners or rights-bearers of agricultural land (%). | Number · up to 2 decimals | 2.16 | 79 | 0 | |
Women in agriculture holding land rights (%)women_with_rightsMeasure | Of 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 decimals | 1.102 share it98.80 | 80 | 3 | |
Men in agriculture holding land rights (%)men_with_rightsMeasure | Of 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 decimals | 13.30 | 80 | 3 | |
Reference yearreference_yearReading year | The year this country’s reading describes. Readings from different years sit side by side. | Year | — | 15 | 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. 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.
| 2025 | |
|---|---|
| Africa | 33 |
| Americas | 4 |
| Asia | 13 |
| Europe | 35 |
| Oceania | 2 |
| All | 87 |
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.
1 · Publisher
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
2 · Their file
Women's Share of Agricultural Landowners — FAOSTAT (readings 2010–2025)
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-landowners-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · 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.
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), 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.
Charted
Women's Share of Agricultural Landowners 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
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.