SDG 5 has nine targets and 14 indicators. Six of the targets are "outcome-oriented": ending all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere; ending violence and exploitation of women and girls; eliminating harmful practices such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation; increasing value of unpaid care and promoting shared domestic responsibilities; ensuring full participation of women in leadership and decision-making; and ensuring access to universal reproductive rights and health. The three "means of achieving" targets are: fostering equal rights to economic resources, property ownership and financial services for women; promoting empowerment of women through technology; and adopting, strengthening policies and enforcing legislation for gender equality.

Through the pledge to "Leave No One Behind", countries have committed to fast-track progress for those furthest behind, first.: 54  SDG 5 aims to grant women and girls equal rights, opportunities to live free without discrimination including workplace discrimination or any violence. This is to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.

SDG Indicator 5.A.1

Female land rights or ownership

Definition: Indicator 5.A.1 is the "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".

This is measured here in the SDG Tracker as the percentage of men and women (aged 15-49) who solely own land which is legally registered to their name.

Goal: By 2030 "give women equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property".

SDG Indicator 5.A.2
Equal rights to land ownership

Definition: Indicator 5.A.2 is the "proportion of countries where the legal framework (including customary law) guarantees women’s equal rights to land ownership and/or control".

This is measured on the basis of whether a given country's legal framework guarantees women's rqual rights to land ownership.

Goal: By 2030 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.