Insurance Premium Growth

Life insurers recorded a 10.8 per cent increase in new business premium collection in the first two months of the current fiscal. The new business premium collection rose by 12.6 per cent in May 2025, according to data released by the Life Insurance Council on Monday. New business premium income rose to Rs 30,463 crore in May 2025 from Rs 27,034 crore in the same month a year ago. The collection in the first two months of FY2025-26 rose to Rs 52,427 crore from Rs 47,293 crore in the April-May period of 2024-25, the data showed. This strong performance is attributed to life insurers' focus on encouraging first-time buyers to secure essential life insurance solutions, contributing to a 3.35 per cent growth in combined individual premium collections for May 2025 and 2.46 per cent growth on a year-to-date basis, it said. According to data released by the council, the life insurance industry saw individual single premiums grow by 5.21 per cent year-on-year to close at Rs 3,525 crore fo

India's insurance market is projected to be the G20's fastest-growing economy over the next five years, with total premium volumes -- life and non-life -- up 7.3 per cent in real terms on average each year aided by macroeconomic stability and the conducive regulatory environment, a report said on Tuesday. Life insurance, the mainstay of India's insurance market, accounts for 74 per cent of total premium volumes, according to a Swiss Re report on the insurance market outlook for India. Life premiums are estimated to grow by 4.8 per cent in 2024 in real terms and by 5 per cent in 2025 (2025-29: 6.9 per cent), following a meagre 0.7 per cent growth in 2023, when the savings segment was adversely impacted by regulatory and taxation changes, it said. The non-life insurance business is forecast to expand to 7.3 per cent (up from 5.7 per cent in 2024) on the back of rising risk awareness, robust economic growth and regulatory initiatives in support of digitalisation, it said. Apart from .

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The growth in the premium was driven by LIC, while a high base effect impacted the improvement of private life insurers, analysts said

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The market share of LIC stood at 63.25% in total first year premium for financial year 2021-22

Tata AIA Life Insurance's total premium income is likely to grow over 30 per cent to cross Rs 14,000 crore in the current fiscal, a top company official has said. The industry growth for the first 10 months of the year has been about 20 per cent mainly because of the base effect and if you look at the growth of the company, it is about 32 per cent on weighted new business premium, Naveen Tahilyani, MD & CEO, Tata AIA Life Insurance Co Ltd, told PTI in an interaction. The life insurer had earned a total premium income of Rs 11,105.09 crore in 2020-21. "We grew at 32 per cent in the first nine months of this fiscal and close to 40 per cent in the first ten months of the year. So, I expect to close the year with about 35 per cent business growth in new business premium and about 30 per cent growth in total premium. Our total premium should certainly cross Rs 14,000 crore this year," Tahilyani said. He said the awareness towards buying insurance has increased post-Covid. However, the .

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This comes after a double-digit growth in premiums in December and low single-digit growth in November, preceded by contraction in September and October

This is despite state-owned insurance behemoth LIC reporting a 2% decline in NBP in the same period to Rs 13,143.64 crore

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The first quarter of FY21 was a rough one for life insures because NBP contracted 18.64 per cent to Rs 49,335 crore against Rs 60,637 crore in Q1FY20 due the lockdown.

The International Monetary Fund has pegged the number at 4.8 per cent and expects it to pull down global growth as well.

Among these, the 25 general insurance providers had a combined premium of Rs 12,447.10 crore during the month, up by 12 per cent

The total gross premiums underwritten by the private insurers are to the tune of Rs 59, 513.59 crore in April-December 2018 against Rs 47,382.33 crore in the same period in 2017

The private insurers reported a steady growth of 23.33% with their first-year business premium

The fastest growing general insurer in 2017-18 is Aditya Birla Health Insurance Company, which registered an annual premium growth rate of 346.78%

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