Non-Life Insurance: Global Industry Guide

Non-Life Insurance: Global Industry Guide

Datamonitor's Non-Life Insurance: Global Industry Guide is an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the non-life Insurance industry. It includes detailed data on market size and segmentation, textual analysis of the key trends and competitive landscape, and profiles of the leading companies. This incisive report provides expert analysis on a global, regional and country basis.

Scope of the Report

* Contains an executive summary and data on value and segmentation

* Provides textual analysis of the industry's prospects, competitive landscape and profiles of the leading companies

* Covers Global, European, Asia-Pacific & 11 individual country markets

* Includes a five-year forecast of the industry

Highlights

The global non-life insurance market wrote total gross premiums of $1,335.1 billion in 2005, this representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.8% for the fiveyear period spanning 2001-2005.

The property and casualty segment proved the most lucrative for the global non-life insurance market in 2005, generating total written premiums of $1,002 billion, equivalent to 75.1% of the market's overall value.

The performance of the market is forecast to decelerate, with an anticipated CAGR of 4.8% for the five-year period 2005-2010 expected to drive the market’s total gross premiums to a value of $1,686.7 billion by the end of 2010.

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Definition

The non-life insurance market consists of the accident and health insurance sector, as well as, the property and casualty insurance sector. The value of the non-life insurance market is shown in terms of gross premium incomes. Any currency conversions used in the report have been calculated using constant 2005 annual average exchange rates.

The non-life insurance market depends on a variety of economic and non-economic factors and future performance is difficult to predict. The forecast given in this report is not based on a complex economic model, but is intended as a rough guide to the direction in which the market is likely to move. This forecast is based on a correlation between past market growth and growth of base drivers, such as house price growth,
GDP growth and long-term interest rates.

For the purpose of this report, Europe comprises Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

Asia-Pacific comprises Australia, China, India, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan.

The Americas comprises the US, Canada, Brazil, and Mexico.

The global market comprises Asia-Pacific, Europe, and the Americas.

Non-Life Insurance: Global Industry Guide