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The insurance industry is a major component of the economy by virtue of the amount of premiums it collects, the scale of its investment and, more fundamentally, the essential social and economic role it plays by covering personal and business risks.
In November 1982, the OECD Insurance Committee constituted the Working Group on insurance statistics. Since then, the Working Group, which was transformed in 1999 into the Task Force, has collected and analysed data on various insurance statistics, as well as discussed relevant methodologies. Data are collected from official bodies in OECD member countries on the number of insurance companies and employees, insurance premiums and investments by insurance companies. The scope of data collection also extends to gross claims payments, gross operating expenses and commissions. The data relate to the period 1983-2006 and are broken down under numerous sub-headings.
Online statistics database
Free online access to frequently-requested insurance statistics.
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