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Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

Target Target 5.a Undertake reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, financial services, inheritance and natural resources, in accordance with national laws

5.a.1 (a) Proportion of total agricultural population with ownership or secure rights over agricultural land, by sex; and (b) share of women among owners or rights-bearers of agricultural land, by type of tenure


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Share of women among owners or rights-bearers of agricultural land, by type of tenure (%)

Country/Area grouping200320042005200620072008200920102011201220132014201520162017201820192020202120222023
Burundi.....................50.3...............52.7.....................
Cameroon....................................29.2......32.7...............
Chad.................................38.4...........................
Comoros...........................52.2.................................
Democratic Republic of the Congo.................................45.3...........................
Benin..........................................25.314.914.9............
Ethiopia.................................49.0...51.4......50.4............
Gambia, the..............................45.3..................29.1.........
Ghana..........................................38.7..................
Guinea...........................51.3...............46.0...............
Cote d'Ivoire.............................................16.216.2............
Kenya.................................51.1...........................
Lesotho.................................45.5...........................
Liberia...................................................41.8.........
Madagascar......................................................44.1......
Malawi..............................54.0...54.6...57.9......57.8.........
Mali.............................................41.78.6............
Mauritania......................................................21.2......
Mozambique........................50.8....................................
Namibia..............................50.7..............................
Niger........................29.1......10.5.........14.714.7............
Nigeria..............................24.0......23.4...21.231.6............
Guinea-Bissau.............................................24.324.3............
Rwanda.....................51.9.........50.450.5.........53.6............
Senegal.............................................19.319.3......8.9...
Sierra Leone.............................................34.647.1............
Zimbabwe....................................49.8.........56.4............
Togo.................................19.9.........22.722.7............
Uganda.......................................39.9...40.838.7............
United Republic of Tanzania..................40.1...43.5...45.0...46.049.5......47.9............
Burkina Faso.................................17.4.........17.517.5............
Zambia.................................50.7.........45.6...............