
Specialist insurance and pensions authority
MozambiqueISSM
Insurance supervision in Mozambique.
01 / The institution
Instituto de Supervisao de Seguros de Mocambique
ISSM is a public legal person with administrative and financial autonomy. The 2024 diploma defines its internal organisation and replaces the 2012 internal regulation.
The legal foundations
Mandate, written into law.
Establishing legislation and the rules governing insurance may be different instruments.
Institutional and insurance framework
Decree-Law 1/2010; Decree 29/2012; Ministerial Diploma 69/2024 ↗
02 / Market signals
The numbers, with context.
Figures retain the reporting period and accounting basis of their source. They are snapshots, not live indicators or directly comparable country rankings.
Gross written premiums
Nominal growth of 11.5%; original total MZN 24,165.6m.
Executive summary; Table 1 ↗Insurance penetration
Gross written premiums divided by GDP, up from 1.62%.
Page 5, Table 1 ↗Insurance penetration. The report’s ratio uses premiums and GDP for 2024, not the publication year.
03 / The report notebook
A dated view of the market.
What we noted in the regulator’s publications. Each entry separates the period covered, publication date when known, and our review date.
2024
Relatório Anual sobre a Actividade Seguradora 2024 ↗
Executive summary and market indicators reviewed. The cover and body identify 2024; the PDF’s embedded title incorrectly refers to 2016.

Solvency margin coverage
361.5%Coverage fell by 89.7 percentage points despite remaining above the required margin.
04 / Official contacts
Reach the institution.
Public institutional channels, checked 17 September 2026.
- Contact the authority
- Contact details and enquiry channelsSource ↗
Research trail
Sources you can follow.
Independent editorial research by Insurers Global. Source dates do not certify that a law includes every subsequent amendment.
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