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Licensed insurance companies in Qatar (2026)

PartialPartially verified against the QCB / QFCRA register, checked 4 Sept 2026.

The 18 insurance companies licensed in Qatar in 2026, as recorded by the Qatar Central Bank / QFC Regulatory Authority (QCB / QFCRA), with the class of business and ownership each one is registered under.

18Licensed operators
3Life17% of entities3General (non-life)17% of entities6Cross-border groups12 domestically owned

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

  • Domestic private11 61%
  • Foreign multinational6 33%
  • State-owned / parastatal1 6%

“Cross-border groups” counts foreign multinationals and pan-regional groups; “domestically owned” counts domestic private, state-owned, mutual and captive entities. The register records the parent’s type, not its home market. How ownership is recorded

Licensed insurers in Qatar

All 18 entities.

InsurerClassOwnershipGroupVerification
AXA Gulf Qatar -> GIG GulfGGeneral (Non-life)Foreign multinationalGIGPartial
MetLife QatarLLifeForeign multinationalMetLifePartial
Zurich Qatar (QFC)LLifeForeign multinationalZurichPartial
Qatar Insurance Co (QIC)CCompositeDomestic privateQIC GroupPartial
Qatar ReRReinsurerDomestic privateQIC GroupPartial
Al Khaleej TakafulTTakaful / IslamicDomestic privateAl KhaleejPartial
Al Koot Insurance & ReinsuranceGGeneral (Non-life)State-owned / parastatalQatarEnergyPartial
Arabia Insurance Company S.A.L.UNot stated in registerForeign multinational—Partial
Damaan Islamic Insurance (Beema)TTakaful / IslamicDomestic privateBeemaPartial
Doha Insurance GroupCCompositeDomestic privateDoha InsurancePartial
Doha Takaful CompanyTTakaful / IslamicDomestic private—Partial
General Takaful? (Doha)TTakaful / IslamicDomestic privateDoha InsurancePartial
Libano-Suisse Insurance CompanyUNot stated in registerForeign multinational—Partial
Misr Insurance CompanyUNot stated in registerForeign multinational—Partial
Qatar General Insurance & ReinsuranceCCompositeDomestic privateQGIRCPartial
Qatar Islamic Insurance (QIIC)TTakaful / IslamicDomestic privateQIICPartial
QLM Life & Medical Insurance CompanyLLifeDomestic private—Partial
Seib Insurance & ReinsuranceGGeneral (Non-life)Domestic privateSeibPartial

Full table for Qatar ↗

Regulatory intelligence: Qatar

Read from the register, not written for this page: the supervisor’s regime, the source the list was checked against, and the market notes recorded alongside it.

Register source
Qatar Central Bank, List of Insurance Companies Licensed by Qatar Central Bank (English and Arabic PDFs, created 29 Oct 2024), retrieved 23 Sep 2026: 14 entities
Verification
Partially verified against the regulator register · Qatar Central Bank, List of Insurance Companies Licensed by Qatar Central Bank (English and Arabic PDFs, created 29 Oct 2024), retrieved 23 Sep 2026: 14 entities

No market event is recorded against this register for 2026. The regime and source above are the standing facts.

Governing legislation

  • Law 13/2012 on the Central Bank and Regulation of Financial Institutions · Institutional and insurance framework

    The QCB law includes insurance and reinsurance supervision. Qatar Financial Centre firms fall within a separate financial-centre framework.

Verification log

QCB directory of 14 licensed insurers (Oct 2024): 9 rows matched; QLM Life & Medical, Doha Takaful and three foreign branches (Arabia Insurance, Libano-Suisse, Misr Insurance) added. QFC-authorised insurers (GIG Gulf, Seib, Zurich, Qatar Re rows) are outside the QCB list and were not checked because the QFCRA register is unreachable, so none was removed.

For B2B teams and AI agents

The same rows as static JSON, no key, CORS open, CC BY 4.0. Paged files stay under 96 KB so an agent’s fetch tool never truncates them.

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