In 2022, Denmark ranked first among all European countries in cost of life insurance premiums per capita at more than 5,000 U.S dollars per capita. Sweden and Finland completed the top three at approximately 4,200 and 4,100 U.S. dollars respectively. In comparison, the countries in Central and Eastern Europe all registered values of below 500 U.S. dollars in life premiums per capita.

Between 2011 and 2023, the balance sheet value of French life insurance companies grew year-on-year. By 2023, the balance sheet value amounted to approximately 2.3 trillion euros, up from 1.5 trillion euros in 2011.

As of November 2024, Allianz was the leading life and health insurer in Europe, with a market value of about 124.4 billion U.S. dollars. The second-largest European life and health insurance company, with a market value of approximately 111.3 billion U.S. dollars, was Swiss insurer Chubb. Allianz and AXA were the largest European insurance companies by total assets. Market capitalization Market capitalization, also known as stock market value, is the total value of issued shares of a publicly traded company. It is equal to the share price multiplied by the number of shares outstanding. It applies only to publicly traded companies or companies that have made their stock market debut, also known as the initial public offering, or an IPO. Due to the practice of buying and selling stock in public markets, market capitalization can be used as a proxy for the wider public’s opinion of a company’s net worth. The insurance industry in the United Kingdom (UK) Although the largest insurers hailed from Germany and France, the UK was still the largest insurance market. The UK is the largest insurance industry in Europe by premiums written. In the same year, the ratio of premiums to GDP, also referred to as insurance penetration, was 10.4 percent.

MetLife, Inc., a financial services company, provides insurance, annuities, employee benefits, and asset management services worldwide. It operates through five segments: U.S.; Asia; Latin America; Europe, the Middle East and Africa; and MetLife Holdings. The company offers life, dental, group short-and long-term disability, individual disability, pet insurance, accidental death and dismemberment, vision, and accident and health coverages, as well as prepaid legal plans; administrative services-only arrangements to employers; and general and separate account, and synthetic guaranteed interest contracts, as well as private floating rate funding agreements. It also provides pension risk transfers, institutional income annuities, structured settlements, and capital markets investment products; and other products and services, such as life insurance products and funding agreements for funding postretirement benefits, as well as company, bank, or trust-owned life insurance used to finance nonqualified benefit programs for executives. In addition, it provides fixed, indexed-linked, and variable annuities; and pension products; regular savings products; whole and term life, endowments, universal and variable life, and group life products; longevity reinsurance solutions; credit insurance products; and protection against long-term health care services. MetLife, Inc. was founded in 1863 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Aflac Incorporated, through its subsidiaries, provides supplemental health and life insurance products. It operates through two segments, Aflac Japan and Aflac U.S. The Aflac Japan segment offers cancer, medical, nursing care income support, GIFT, and whole and term life insurance products, as well as WAYS and child endowment plans under saving type insurance products in Japan. The Aflac U.S. segment provides cancer, accident, short-term disability, critical illness, hospital indemnity, dental, vision, long-term care and disability, and term and whole life insurance products in the United States. It sells its products through sales associates, brokers, independent corporate agencies, individual agencies, and affiliated corporate agencies. The company was founded in 1955 and is based in Columbus, Georgia.

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According to a survey conducted in 2023 in India, ** percent of respondents were aware of the life insurance. However, only ** percent of the respondents currently owned a life insurance policy. The most important purchase barriers were affordability issues, lack of sufficient understanding, and procrastination.

In the fiscal year 2023, private insurers in India had written over three trillion Indian rupees worth of life insurance premiums. Since 2009, private insurers have crossed the three trillion mark for the first time.

In 2023, life expectancy at birth in Nigeria was about 61.79 years. More specifically, this figure equaled 60 years for males and 64 years for females. Life expectancy at birth in Nigeria is among the lowest in Africa as well as in the world.

The health expenditure as a share of gross domestic product in Nigeria increased by 0.2 percentage points (+4.9 percent) in 2022. With 4.27 percent, the share thereby reached its highest value in the observed period. Estimates of current health expenditures include healthcare goods and services consumed each year. This indicator does not include capital health expenditures such as buildings, machinery, IT, and stocks of vaccines for emergency or outbreaks. Level of current health expenditure is expressed as a percentage of GDP.Find more statistics on other topics about Nigeria with key insights such as infant mortality rate, death rate, and total life expectancy at birth.