Degree of land concentration

Agricultural land (thousands of ha): 9,241

small farms as % of all farms: 79.4%

% of agricultural land in the hands of small farmers: 40%

Measurement of “small-scale”: <1ha

Year/source: http://www.moa.gov.bd/statistics/Table11.02_Census.htm 88% (or 25.35 million) of households are rural: 3.26 million households are totally landless; 8 million are tenants, and 14.39 million have more than 0.05 acres

Gini Index for land distribution: 0,62