Ownership of assets, particularly high-value assets, has many beneficial effects for households, including protection against financial ruin. For women in particular, asset ownership is a source of economic empowerment and provides protection in the case of marital dissolution or abandonment. There is increasing evidence that ownership of property by women has positive consequences for women’s empowerment, nutritional and health outcomes, and children’s schooling.
Men who do not own land (% of men)
Men who do not own land (% of men) is the percentage of men who don’t own any land, which legally registered with their name or cannot be sold without their signature, either solely or jointly with someone else or both.
Men who do not own land is the number of men who say they don’t own any land either alone or jointly with someone else or both, expressed as percentage of men who have been interviewed and It’s derived by dividing the number of men who responded they don’t own any land which legally registered with their name or can’t be sold without their signature by total number of men who have been interviewed. ‘Ownership’ implies that the land is legally registered in the man's name or, since official property records do not always exist or are not maintained, the land is recognized as his  and cannot be sold without his signature or equivalent. ‘land’ includes all agricultural or non-agricultural land. Non-agricultural land refers to rural land that is not used for growing crops, and most land in urban areas.