Country	Nonlife Insurance	Life Insurance
(Direct premiums written, U.S. $ millions)
Algeria	$454	$26
Angola	297	9
Argentina	2,752	1,345
Australia (2)	23,714	25,689
Austria	9,701	7,695
Bangladesh	111	210
Belgium	14,741	24,112
Botswana	97	216
Brazil	9,843	8,199
Bulgaria	401	64
Canada (3)	40,232	29,509
Chile	1,410	2,617
Colombia	1,691	645
Costa Rica	320	28
Croatia	838	260
Cyprus	317	352
Czech Republic	2,673	1,720
Denmark	7,060	12,453
Dominican Republic	333	33
Ecuador	432	59
Egypt (4)	400	211
El Salvador	246	105
Estonia	188	64
Finland	3,507	12,823
France	65,811	128,813
Germany	106,261	84,535
Greece	2,410	1,913
Guatemala	246	44
Hong Kong	2,291	12,969
Hungary	1,708	1,179
Iceland	341	37
India (5)	4,330	16,919
Indonesia	1,754	1,626
Iran (6)	1,727	153
Ireland	8,815	19,068
Israel	3,916	3,178
Italy	46,728	82,083
Jamaica	269	162
Japan (5)	105,587	386,839
Jordan	251	32
Kenya	289	119
Kuwait	298	95
Lebanon	397	180
Lithuania	245	85
Luxembourg	1,333	8,203
Malaysia (5)	2,245	4,208
Malta	144	147
Mauritius	108	165
Mexico	7,019	5,213
Morocco	1,049	323
Namibia	143	313
Netherlands (7)	27,064	31,512
New Zealand	4,297	1,284
Nigeria	455	104
Norway	6,037	7,850
Oman	236	38
Pakistan	339	224
Panama	269	153
Peru	483	400
Philippines	509	783
Poland	4,604	2,828
Portugal	5,351	7,823
PR China	16,765	35,407
Qatar	271	12
Romania	818	251
Russia	12,809	3,544
Saudi Arabia	1,146	50
Serbia and Montenegro	444	34
Singapore	3,237	6,459
Slovakia	885	603
Slovenia	1,278	531
South Africa (3)	6,301	24,381
South Korea (5)	19,944	48,680
Spain	32,311	23,592
Sri Lanka	153	120
Sweden	8,285	15,790
Switzerland	17,939	24,067
Taiwan	9,385	33,851
Thailand	2,581	3,167
Trinidad and Tobago	232	642
Tunisia	511	43
Turkey (8)	3,763	857
Ukraine	2,894	29
United Arab Emirates	1,239	254
United Kingdom	105,241	189,591
United States (9)	603,018	494,818
Venezuela	2,550	79
Vietnam	302	601

(1) Includes accident and health insurance.
(2) Nonlife insurance: July 1, 2002 - June 30, 2003.
(3) Life business expressed in net premiums.
(4) July 1, 2002 - June 30, 2003.
(5) April 1, 2003 - March 31, 2004.
(6) March 21, 2003 - March 20, 2004.
(7) Nonlife insurance is gross premiums including a small amount of reinsurance premiums.
(8) Premium in local currency in TRL billions.
(9) Life premiums include an estimate of group pension premiums. Nonlife insurance includes state funds.

Source: Swiss Re, sigma, No. 2, 2005.