B2.2.4. Trends in land use certificates

● Number of Land Use Right Certificates (LURCs) issued: Recent data covers only agricultural production land, but shows that nationally in 2020, 96.9% of households using agricultural production land had a LURC.^[1]

● Land Use Right Certificates issued to female-headed households: Between 2004 and 2014, LURCs issued only to men have decreased. Jointly titled cropland increased from 11.6% of samples to LURCs, to 38.3%, while LURCs considered “only female’’ decreased from 17.5% to 15.7%. In other lands, including forests, between 2004 and 2014, jointly titled increased from 13.9% to 41.4%, while female only LURCs decreased from 14.9% to 13.3%.^[2] More recent data covers only agricultural production land and shows that, of the 96.9% of households with a LURC in 2020, 77.5% are issued to men, while 19.4% are issued to women.^[1]

● Land use certificates issued to ethnic minority households: No data available.

 

[1] GSO (2022) Gender Statistics in Viet Nam, 2021. https://www.gso.gov.vn/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Thong-tin-gioi-VN-2021_final.pdf

[2] World Bank data, cited in UN Women (2021) Country Gender Quality Profile: Viet Nam, 2021. https://asiapacific.unwomen.org/sites/default/files/Field%20Office%20ESEAsia/Docs/Publications/2021/10/vn-CGEP_Full.pdf