Supplementary Materials
Overview of the Life Insurance Market
1. Market Scale Income from insurance premiums in fiscal 2019 for Japan’s life in- latest research, the life insurance household participation rate is surers* totaled ¥33 trillion. It had continued to gradually increase 88.7%, and nine out of ten households have taken out some form from fiscal 2002, but has recently turned downward. of life insurance, making Japan an “insurance superpower.”
Moreover, Japan’s life insurance industry boasts the second larg- * There are a total of 42 Japanese life insurance companies. (As of March 31, 2020) est market in the world, following that of the U.S. According to the
Trend in the income from insurance premiums Domestic share of premium income (Year 2019)