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Date of publication
November 2012

PREVIOUS EDITIONS

2011  (pdf, 324KB)

Global Insurance Market Trends 2012 (pdf, 477KB)

Accompanying statistics (xls)

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.

Since the early 1980s, the OECD has collected and analysed data on insurance in OECD countries such as the number of insurance companies and employees, insurance premiums and investments by insurance companies. The launch of the Global Insurance Statistics project in 2008 extended the global reach of the database and expanded the insurance framework to include the collection of key balance sheet and income statement items for the direct insurance and reinsurance sectors.

Published as a complement to the statistics database, the analysis in Global Insurance Market Trends serves to monitor the insurance industry’s overall performance and health. Over time, this report will be extended to cover additional countries and other aspects of insurance and reinsurance.

Coverage: all OECD countries plus Hong Kong (China), India, Malaysia, Russia, Singapore, South Africa and Thailand.

See also

Key tables on insurance

Insurance statistics database