FAO · Women's Share of Agricultural Landowners
Women's share of landowners by country
Of the people who own or hold rights to farmland, what share are women?
Of the 77 countries compared in the 2025 edition, Malawi had the highest reading, 57.80%, and Pakistan had the lowest reading, 2.16%. In the middle country the figure was 25.78%. 10 readings from before 2015 are listed but not compared.
Share
Women's share of landowners · the 2025 edition
Context statistic
Highest of 77Malawi
57.80%01the 2025 edition · values only
The highest and the lowest
The three countries with the highest values of 77 compared, the three with the lowest, and the highest on each continent. This statistic has no better end, so no country is shown as leading.
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Lowest in the 2025 edition
Pakistan2.16%
Gambia2.80%
Netherlands5.60%
This statistic has no better end: the two ends describe size, not success.
02Every measured country
Women's share of landowners on a map
Each country is shaded by its value, in five groups holding the same number of countries. Hover a country for its value, or select it to open its profile. Below the map, each continent’s middle country.
Darker is a higher value. This statistic has no better end, so the shades describe size, not success.
- 2.16–14.70%
- 15.00–23.20%
- 24.30–31.70%
- 32.00–41.70%
- 42.99–57.80%
- Hatched: a reading from before 2015, listed but not compared (10)
- No reading in the 2025 edition
- Africa
35.14%
the middle country, of 28 measured · 55 members
Malawi57.80%Gambia2.80%Highest and lowest reading in Africa.
- Asia
26.20%
the middle country, of 12 measured · 52 members
Cambodia52.80%Pakistan2.16%Highest and lowest reading in Asia.
- Europe
23.20%
the middle country, of 32 measured · 49 members
Belarus57.40%Netherlands5.60%Highest and lowest reading in Europe.
- Americas
3 of 48 measured — too few for a middle: Guatemala, Haiti, Peru.
Haiti29.94%
Guatemala18.78%Highest and lowest reading in Americas.
- Oceania
2 of 21 measured — too few for a middle: Fiji, Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea32.68%
Fiji24.70%Highest and lowest reading in Oceania.
- Every region
16 sub-regions, highest middle country first
- Eastern Africa
47.90%
the middle country, of 11 measured · 19 members
Malawi57.80%
Zambia30.50%Highest and lowest reading in Eastern Africa.
- Southern Europe
32.25%
the middle country, of 8 measured · 17 members
Greece36.90%
Malta11.20%Highest and lowest reading in Southern Europe.
- Eastern Europe
27.80%
the middle country, of 7 measured · 10 members
Belarus57.40%
Czechia17.70%Highest and lowest reading in Eastern Europe.
- Western Africa
17.10%
the middle country, of 14 measured · 16 members
Liberia46.50%Gambia2.80%Highest and lowest reading in Western Africa.
- Northern Europe
16.50%
the middle country, of 10 measured · 13 members
Latvia41.70%
Finland10.30%Highest and lowest reading in Northern Europe.
- Western Europe
13.90%
the middle country, of 7 measured · 9 members
Austria25.80%Netherlands5.60%Highest and lowest reading in Western Europe.
- Caribbean
1 of 24 measured — too few for a middle: Haiti.
Haiti29.94%Highest and lowest reading in Caribbean.
- Central America
1 of 8 measured — too few for a middle: Guatemala.
Guatemala18.78%Highest and lowest reading in Central America.
- Melanesia
2 of 5 measured — too few for a middle: Fiji, Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea32.68%Fiji24.70%Highest and lowest reading in Melanesia.
- Middle Africa
1 of 9 measured — too few for a middle: Cameroon.
Cameroon25.78%Highest and lowest reading in Middle Africa.
- Northern Africa
1 of 6 measured — too few for a middle: Morocco.
Morocco15.00%Highest and lowest reading in Northern Africa.
- South America
1 of 12 measured — too few for a middle: Peru.
Peru29.40%Highest and lowest reading in South America.
- South-eastern Asia
4 of 11 measured — too few for a middle: Cambodia, Indonesia, Myanmar, Timor-Leste.
Cambodia52.80%
Indonesia19.70%Highest and lowest reading in South-eastern Asia.
- Southern Africa
1 of 5 measured — too few for a middle: Eswatini.
Eswatini56.20%Highest and lowest reading in Southern Africa.
- Southern Asia
4 of 9 measured — too few for a middle: Afghanistan, India, Nepal, Pakistan.
Nepal34.40%Pakistan2.16%Highest and lowest reading in Southern Asia.
- Western Asia
4 of 19 measured — too few for a middle: Armenia, Cyprus, Georgia, Oman.
Armenia38.92%
Oman6.59%Highest and lowest reading in Western Asia.
03The whole field at once
The spread
77 countries, one dot each, on one scale — further right is a higher value. Half the countries are above 25.78%; a quarter are above 38.68%, and a quarter below 16.20%. The bar in each row marks that continent’s middle country.
04All 87 ever measured
Every country
In order, highest value first. No rank or position is shown: too many countries share the same value for an order to mean anything. Equal shares would be about 50%, and a few countries sit above that, so neither end of this table is simply the good end. Surveys define ownership differently — a name on a title, the right to sell, the right to bequeath — and readings more than ten years older than the newest are listed but not compared.
Showing 25 of 87 countries
Values for the 2025 edition.
05In this edition
Women's share of landowners in records
The extremes of the statistic. A record reached by more than one country names none of them.
Highest reading
57.80%
Women's share of owners or rights-bearers of agricultural land (%)
Lowest reading
2.16%
Women's share of owners or rights-bearers of agricultural land (%)
06The measure
About women's share of 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.
What the number is: Women's share of owners or rights-bearers of agricultural land (%).
07Where it fits
Connections
Its part in the Country Index, the statistics whose values line up most closely with it across countries, and others on the same subject.
In the Country Index
Context, with no vote
This statistic is published in full under Gender & Equality and Food & Agriculture, but does not help decide any Country Index standing.
Gender & EqualityFood & AgricultureWhich statistics vote, and why
Moves with
Where women's share of landowners is higher, these tend to be higher too.
No statistic lines up this closely.
Moves against
Where women's share of landowners is higher, these tend to be lower.
No statistic lines up this closely.
Rank correlation (ρ, from −1 to 1) across countries, on each statistic’s newest edition, out of 0 statistics sharing at least 80 countries with this one. Two statistics that move together do not cause each other.
08Keep reading
Explore further
The subject
The data, edition by edition
09Questions
Women's share of landowners: questions and answers
Which country has the highest women's share of landowners?
Malawi, at 57.80%, among the 77 countries compared in the 2025 edition.
Which country has the lowest women's share of landowners?
Pakistan, at 2.16%, among the 77 countries compared in the 2025 edition.
How many countries does the Women's Share of Agricultural Landowners cover?
77 in the 2025 edition, and 87 at least once across all editions.
What is the world average women's share of landowners?
This site does not calculate a world average, which would depend on how countries are weighted. In the middle country of the 77 compared in the 2025 edition, the figure was 25.78%.
Is this Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)’s own ranking?
No ranking is shown. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) publishes values only, and too many countries share the same value for an ordering to mean anything, so none is derived.
How often is the Women's Share of Agricultural Landowners published?
This site holds one edition, describing 2025.
Where does the data come from, and can I download it?
From Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), under CC BY 4.0. 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. Every edition is on this site’s Datasets pages as a full table, and downloads as a CSV file with every value unrounded.
10Method
Sources, method and citation
Source
Women's Share of Agricultural Landowners — Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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.
Newest edition
Report year 2025Data year not recorded
Cite the source as: FAO. 2026. FAOSTAT: SDG Indicators. Accessed on 29 September 2026. https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/SDGB Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
Licence: CC BY 4.0, checked 2026-09-29.
How this page reads the numbers
- No rank or position is shown: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) publishes values only, and too many countries share the same value for an ordering to mean anything.
- This statistic has no better end, so the page describes higher and lower values and never calls a country a leader.
- A country is named at an end only when it holds that value alone. Where several share it, the page says how many and names none first.
- The file gives each country’s most recent reading, so the rows are from different years. Readings from before 2015 are listed but left out of every comparison on this page.
- Values are stored exactly as published and trimmed only for display. “The middle country” is the median of the countries measured, not a world average.
The file itself, column by column — where it came from, what each column holds, and every edition as a CSV — is on its dataset page.
Cite this page
Nations Inquiry (2026). Women's share of landowners by country: Women's Share of Agricultural Landowners, data from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). https://nationsinquiry.com/statistics/women-landowners