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Licensed insurance companies in Tanzania (2026)

VerifiedVerified against the TIRA register, checked 2 Sept 2026.

The 40 insurance companies licensed in Tanzania in 2026, as recorded by the Tanzania Insurance Regulatory Authority (TIRA), with the class of business and ownership each one is registered under.

Snapshot

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 private20 50%
  • Pan-African group14 35%
  • State-owned / parastatal5 13%
  • Foreign multinational1 3%

“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 Tanzania

Showing 25 of 40 entities. The full, filterable table is on the country page; every row is in the JSON below.

InsurerClassOwnershipGroupVerification
Jubilee Allianz Insurance TanzaniaGGeneral (Non-life)Pan-African groupJubilee Holdings / AllianzVerified
Sanlam General Insurance TanzaniaGGeneral (Non-life)Pan-African groupSanlam AllianzVerified
Sanlam Life Insurance TanzaniaLLifePan-African groupSanlam AllianzVerified
Britam Insurance TanzaniaGGeneral (Non-life)Pan-African groupBritam HoldingsVerified
First Assurance Co TanzaniaGGeneral (Non-life)Pan-African groupAbsa GroupVerified
GA Insurance TanzaniaGGeneral (Non-life)Pan-African groupGA InsuranceVerified
Grand Reinsurance TanzaniaRReinsurerPan-African groupGrand ReVerified
Heritage Insurance Co TanzaniaGGeneral (Non-life)Pan-African groupLiberty / Standard Bank GroupVerified
ICEA Lion Insurance TanzaniaGGeneral (Non-life)Pan-African groupICEA LionVerified
Jubilee Health Insurance TanzaniaHHealth / MedicalPan-African groupJubilee HoldingsVerified
Jubilee Life Insurance TanzaniaLLifePan-African groupJubilee HoldingsVerified
Mayfair Insurance Co TanzaniaGGeneral (Non-life)Pan-African groupMayfair GroupVerified
MUA Insurance Tanzania (formerly Phoenix)GGeneral (Non-life)Pan-African groupMUA (Mauritius Union)Verified
Alliance Insurance CorpGGeneral (Non-life)Domestic privateAlliance GroupVerified
Alliance Life AssuranceLLifeDomestic privateAlliance GroupVerified
Assemble Insurance TanzaniaGGeneral (Non-life)Domestic privateIndependentVerified
Beema Star InsuranceGGeneral (Non-life)Domestic privateIndependentVerified
Bumaco InsuranceGGeneral (Non-life)Domestic privateIndependentVerified
Bumaco Life InsuranceLLifeDomestic privateIndependentVerified
CRDB Insurance Co (CIC)GGeneral (Non-life)Domestic privateCRDB BankVerified
East Africa Reinsurance Co (Tanzania)RReinsurerPan-African groupEA ReVerified
First United TakafulTTakaful / IslamicDomestic privateIndependentVerified
Insurance Group of Tanzania (IGT)GGeneral (Non-life)Domestic privateIndependentVerified
Maxinsure TanzaniaGGeneral (Non-life)Domestic privateIndependentVerified
Meticulous InsuranceGGeneral (Non-life)Domestic privateIndependentVerified

Full table for Tanzania ↗

Regulatory intelligence: Tanzania

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.

Regime
Insurance Act 2009
Register source
TIRA register as compiled by TanzaniaInvest, Jan 2025 update (36 insurers, 4 local reinsurers)
Verification
Verified against the regulator register · TIRA register via TanzaniaInvest Jan 2025

Recorded market events

  • 4 local reinsurers licensed (Tan-Re, Grand Re, PanAfrique Re, EA Re); 32 foreign reinsurers accredited

    Effect on directory: Local reinsurers on Reinsurers sheet; foreign accreditations excluded

Governing legislation

  • Insurance Act 10 of 2009 · Institutional and insurance framework

    The Act establishes TIRA as a body corporate under the Minister's general supervision and assigns responsibility for insurance regulation across the United Republic.

Verification log

Removed Heritage? (kept - listed), Metropolitan Tanzania, Milembe kept; added Beema Star, Bumaco Life, CRDB Insurance, First United Takaful, IGT, Jubilee Health, Meticulous, Metro Life, Mgen, Newtan, Resolution, Tanzindia, ZIC Takaful, NIC Life, PanAfrique Re, EA Re; removed Mo Assurance duplicate and UAP (now Newtan)

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.

curl -s https://insurers.global/api/v1/countries/tanzania.json
curl -s https://insurers.global/api/v1/countries/tanzania/insurers/pages/1.json