Half of England Is Owned by Less Than 1% of Its Population, Researcher Says

Government efforts to make a public accounting of land ownership date to the 19th century, but according to the Land Registry, about 15 percent of the country’s area, most of it rural, is still unrecorded. “It should prompt a proper debate about the need for land reform in England,” Mr. Shrubsole said. But in Britain, land accounted for half of the country’s net worth in 2016, according to data from the Office of National Statistics — double that of Germany and higher than in countries like France, Canada and Japan.

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