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NIA register: licensed insurers in Nepal

PartialPartially verified against the NIA register, checked 4 Sept 2026.

The NIA register for Nepal as the directory holds it: 37 licensed insurers with the identifiers the register carries, ready to export as JSON.

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 private30 81%
  • Foreign multinational4 11%
  • State-owned / parastatal3 8%

“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

NIA register rows

All 37 entities.

InsurerClassRegister idLEIRegisteredWebsiteVerification
MetLife NepalLLife————Partial
Asian LifeLLife————Partial
Citizen LifeLLife————Partial
Crest Micro Life Insurance LimitedMMicroinsurer————Partial
Guardian Micro Life Insurance LimitedMMicroinsurer————Partial
Himalayan Everest InsuranceGGeneral (Non-life)————Partial
Himalayan LifeLLife————Partial
Himalayan ReinsuranceRReinsurer————Partial
IGI Prudential InsuranceGGeneral (Non-life)————Partial
IME LifeLLife————Partial
Liberty Micro Life Insurance LimitedMMicroinsurer————Partial
Life Insurance Corp NepalLLife————Partial
National Insurance Co Nepal branchGGeneral (Non-life)————Partial
National LifeLLife————Partial
Neco InsuranceGGeneral (Non-life)————Partial
Nepal InsuranceGGeneral (Non-life)————Partial
Nepal LifeLLife————Partial
Nepal Micro Insurance Company LimitedMMicroinsurer————Partial
Nepal Reinsurance CoRReinsurer————Partial
NLG InsuranceGGeneral (Non-life)————Partial
Oriental Insurance Nepal branchGGeneral (Non-life)————Partial
Prabhu InsuranceGGeneral (Non-life)————Partial
Prabhu Mahalaxmi LifeLLife————Partial
Protective Micro Insurance Company LimitedMMicroinsurer————Partial
Rastriya Beema Company (non-life)GGeneral (Non-life)————Partial
Rastriya Beema Sansthan (life)LLife————Partial
Reliable Nepal LifeLLife————Partial
Sagarmatha Lumbini InsuranceGGeneral (Non-life)————Partial
Sanima GIC InsuranceGGeneral (Non-life)————Partial
Sanima Reliance LifeLLife————Partial
Shikhar InsuranceGGeneral (Non-life)————Partial
Siddhartha Premier InsuranceGGeneral (Non-life)————Partial
Star Micro Insurance Company LimitedMMicroinsurer————Partial
SUN Nepal LifeLLife————Partial
Surya Jyoti LifeLLife————Partial
Trust Micro Insurance LimitedMMicroinsurer————Partial
United Ajod InsuranceGGeneral (Non-life)————Partial

Full table for Nepal ↗

Regulatory intelligence: Nepal

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 2079 (2022), which repealed the 1992 Act and created the Nepal Insurance Authority; post-2023 merger wave
Register source
Nepal Insurance Authority home page "Number of insurers" panel (14 life, 14 non-life, 2 reinsurance, 7 micro), served 22 Sep 2026, cross-checked against the NIA "List of Licensed Insurance Companies" PDF (Insurer Information, updated 5 May 2024), which lists the same 37: 37 entities
Verification
Partially verified against the regulator register · Nepal Insurance Authority home page "Number of insurers" panel (14 life, 14 non-life, 2 reinsurance, 7 micro), served 22 Sep 2026, cross-checked against the NIA "List of Licensed Insurance Companies" PDF (Insurer Information, updated 5 May 2024), which lists the same 37: 37 entities

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

Governing legislation

  • Insurance Act 2079 (2022), as amended · Institutional and insurance framework

    The authority’s legal library provides the current Nepali act, including a second-amendment edition uploaded in August 2025. Older English acts are historical versions.

Verification log

All 30 rows matched the NIA list of licensed insurers (37: 14 life, 14 non-life, 2 reinsurers, 7 microinsurers), retrieved 22 Sep 2026; added the 7 microinsurers (3 life, 4 non-life). No removals or class changes.

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