Life insurance companies will grow with great speed must read some facts


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The life insurance industry is expected to increase at a CAGR of 5.3% between 2019 and 2023. India’s insurance penetration was pegged at 4.2% in FY21, with life insurance penetration at 3.2% and non-life insurance penetration at 1.0%. In terms of insurance density, India’s overall density stood at US$ 78 in FY21.


Premiums from India’s life insurance industry is expected to reach Rs. 24 lakh crore (US$ 317.98 billion) by FY31. In FY23 (Until October 2022), premiums from new businesses of life insurance companies in India stood at US$ 25.3 billion. In October 2022, life insurers’ new business premiums grew to Rs. 15,920.13 crores (US$ 1.94 billion), according to Life Insurance Council data. The gross first-year premium of life insurers increased by 12.93% in 2021-22 to Rs. 314,262.42 crore (US$ 40.06 billion).


Between April 2021-March 2022, gross premiums written off by non-life insurers reached Rs. 220,772.07 crore (US$ 28.14 billion), an increase of 11.1% over the same period in FY21. In May 2022, the total premium earned by the non-life insurance segment stood at Rs. 36,680.73 crore (US$ 4.61 billion), a 24.15% increase as compared to the same period in the previous year. The market share of private sector companies in the general and health insurance market increased from 48.03% in FY20 to 49.31% in FY21. Six standalone private sector health insurance companies registered a jump of 66.6% in their gross premium at Rs 1,406.64 crore (US$ 191.84 million) in May 2021, as against Rs. 844.13 crore (US$ 115.12 million) earlier.


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