TOP TEN COUNTRIES BY LIFE AND NONLIFE DIRECT PREMIUMS WRITTEN, 2011 (1)

(U.S. $ millions)

        Total premiums
Rank Country Life premiums Nonlife premiums (2) Amount Percent change
from prior year
Percent of total
world premiums
1 United States (3),(4) $537,570 $667,107 $1,204,677 3.7% 26.2%
2 Japan (4),(6) 524,668 130,741 655,408 14.7 14.26
3 United Kingdom (4) 210,067 109,486 319,553 6.4 6.95
4 France (4) 174,753 98,359 273,112 -3.6 5.94
5 Germany (5) 113,869 131,292 245,162 4.3 5.34
6 P.R. China (5) 134,539 87,319 221,858 3.4 4.83
7 Italy 105,089 55,426 160,514 -7.9 3.49
8 South Korea (6) 79,161 51,223 130,383 13.3 2.84
9 Canada (4),(7) 52,167 69,045 121,213 6.6 2.64
10 Netherlands 31,210 79,722 110,931 8.5 2.41

(1) Before reinsurance transactions.
(2) Includes accident and health insurance. Does not correspond to grouping of U.S. data shown elsewhere in the book.
(3) Life premiums include an estimate of group pension business; nonlife premiums include state funds.
(4) Estimated.
(5) Provisional.
(6) April 1, 2011 to March 31, 2012.
(7) Life insurance premiums are net premiums.

Source: Swiss Re, sigma, No. 3/2012.