World insurance series

The world insurance sigma covers premiums written in the global primary insurance industry. Published annually, it has become one of the fixtures of the sigma programme since 1968, the publication's inaugural year. This page gives quick access to all the resources.

sigma 3/2024: World insurance: strengthening global resilience with a new lease of life

Prevailing economic conditions have given insurance business a new lease of life. Economic resilience, reflected in slowing but still robust economic growth, and high interest rates are driving much-improved industry profitability. An insurance sector in healthy earnings mode will attract more capital. This, in turn, will drive industry growth and expand risk transfer capacity, enabling the industry to contribute more to narrowing existing protection gaps in many parts of the world.

previous world insurance sigmas

previous world insurance sigmas

graphic Top 20 insurance markets by premium volume, 2021

graphic Global real premium growth, non-life and life, 2020-2023F

sigma explorer: the data you need at your fingertips

Visualize sigma's historical data on world re/insurance premiums through our web-based sigma explorer app.

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Real growth vs nominal growth in USD, what's the difference

Real premium growth, the preferred measure for international comparison growth and growth in USD can diverge greatly in the short term, the below infographic explains why.

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