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3 licensed entities supervised by the Royal Monetary Authority.

Listed insurers
3
Insurance classes
3
Groups present
0
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Reinsurance tax on foreign reinsurers

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  • Bhutan: Rate not established — Not verified · reviewed 2026-10-06
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Local names, languages & illustration notes

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By class of business

Each company is counted once, under the class its register row records. The supervisor’s own tally counts licences, so a company licensed for more than one class appears more than once there.

By ownership

  • State-owned / parastatal1 33%
  • Domestic private1 33%
  • Foreign multinational1 33%

Verification log

Partially verified - RMA publishes no insurer register; its FID Annual Report 2025-26 names the two licensed insurance companies (RICBL, BIL), and the reinsurer appears only as a link in the RMA site's non-bank list · RMA Financial Intelligence Department Annual Report 2025-2026 (PDF created 14 Sep 2026): "the two licensed insurance companies" RICBL and BIL; RMA Annual Report 2025 (non-bank FIs RICBL, BIL, NPPF); RMA website footer "Non-Banks": RICBL, Bhutan Insurance Ltd, NPPF, GIC (gicbhutanre.com), retrieved 22 Sep 2026: 3 insurance entities

All 3 rows corroborated by RMA publications: its FID Annual Report 2025-26 names RICBL and BIL as the two licensed insurance companies, and GIC-Bhutan Re is listed among RMA's non-bank institutions on its website; no additions or removals. RMA publishes no formal register of insurers, so licence categories are not stated.

Licensed insurers in Bhutan

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CompanyClassParent / groupOwnershipRegulatorVerificationPopularity
Royal Insurance Corp of BhutanState-owned
Registered as Royal Insurance Corporation of Bhutan Limited (RICBL)
CCompositeRICBState-owned / parastatalRMAPartial—
Bhutan Insurance Ltd
Registered as Bhutan Insurance Limited (BIL)
GGeneral (Non-life)BILDomestic privateRMAPartial—
GIC-Bhutan Re
Registered as GIC
RReinsurerGIC Re / BhutanForeign multinationalRMAPartial—

Popularity is an estimate of how often people search Google for each insurer, from 0 to 100; the bars show how confident the estimate is. Not a rating of the insurer. How the index works

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