96 markets mapped · Africa and Europe · verified 2026-09-03

Every licensed insurer,
one map at a time.

Insurers Global is an open, machine-readable directory of the world’s insurance companies, built one market at a time. Africa and Europe are mapped: 4,641 licensed insurers, reinsurers and takaful operators across 96 countries, each reconciled against the supervisor’s own register where one is published. More regions follow.

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World map of covered insurance markets
Licensed insurers per country1–67–1011–2223–5152+not yet covered

Browse Africa by region

Africa: six sub-regions

Fifty markets, each reconciled line by line against the supervisor’s register where one is published.

All 50 countries

Browse Europe by region

Europe: six sub-regions

Every EU/EEA undertaking in the EIOPA register, Switzerland from FINMA, the UK and Gibraltar from the PRA list, plus principal carriers in non-EEA markets.

All 46 countries

Largest markets

Where the licences are

Africa

  1. South Africa140
  2. Zimbabwe69
  3. Kenya64
  4. Nigeria51
  5. Ghana48

Europe

  1. France614
  2. Germany499
  3. United Kingdom450
  4. Luxembourg268
  5. Sweden215

Classes of business

What they are licensed to write

Ownership

  • Domestic private 2449
  • Mutual / cooperative 918
  • Pan-European group 503
  • Foreign multinational 302
  • Pan-African group 274
  • State-owned / parastatal 187
  • Regional / multilateral 8

2026 market notes

Regulatory events shaping the register

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Who got licensed, who lost a licence, what the regulators changed

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For AI agents

Query the directory without scraping

Every page registers WebMCP tools through navigator.modelContext, and the same data is published as a static JSON API with an OpenAPI description and an llms.txt.

curl https://insurers.global/api/v1/countries/kenya.json | jq '.regulator, .total'