Top 10% rural households control 44% of land in India: Report

Mini Tiwari, Published on Apr 7th, 2026

Top 10% rural households control 44% of land in India: Report

The top 10% rural households of India own 44% of land, while 46% of rural households are landless, according to World Inequality Lab (WIL) analysis. The data, covering around 65 crore people across 2,70,000 villages, further says that 18% of rural land is held by the top 1%. Villages with higher agricultural productivity face a higher land inequality, it added.

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