The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in February 2017 published the 2016 edition of its yearly global insurance market trends report.

Since the early 1980s, the OECD has collected and analyzed data on insurance in OECD countries. Since 2008, the Global Insurance Statistics project has extended the global reach of the database and expanded the data collected which now includes not only the number of insurance companies and employees, insurance premiums and investments by insurance companies, but also key balance sheet and income statement items for the direct insurance and reinsurance sectors.

The report is published as a complement to the OECD’s comprehensive insurance statistics database . Over time, it will be extended to cover additional countries and other aspects of insurance and reinsurance.

The 2016 edition can be found here:  Global Insurance Market Trends 2016 (pdf), with its Accompanying statistics (xls)