General Insurance Market in India and
The Emerging Scenario.
The general insurance market in India is growing at a very fast pace. The annual growth is more than 20%. This has happened due economic liberalization and due to the entry of private players in the field of insurance in 2001 and afterwards. The 12 non-life players collected Rs.25, 002.00 Crores during the year 2006-07 whereas the figures of last year were Rs.20, 431.00 Crores. That way it is a growth of about 19%. This figure of 2006-07 is 125 times of the figure of business procured in 1973, which was Rs. 200.00 Crores. It was the year 1973 when the Government of India nationalized the general insurance business.
The exact percentage of growth and future potential in this sector can be judged or measured from this fact that today an average Indian spends only Rs.100 for getting the coverage of insurance for non-life products, which includes the health products. If we compare this figure we shall find that this figure is more than Rs.700 in East Asian countries and mind boggling Rs.50, 000 in Japan and Rs.100, 000 ($2500) in US.
Taking in to account the business figures circulated by IRDA we find that the general insurance business figures of last year was Rs.25000 Crores. In other words every day Rs 70 Crores non-life insurance business is being done in India and that way every month Rs. 2100 Crores change hands. This is really a very huge amount and we can safely visualize that by 2015 the business will cross the Rs.100, 000 Crores figures.
The private players in non-life sector are holding a market share of around 35% whereas the public sector companies are having only 65% share of the business in the country. The public sector companies business although increasing year by y ...