U.S. life insurance: number of individual life policies purchased 2009-2018

Published by Jennifer Rudden, Jan 11, 2022
The statistic presents the number of individual life insurance policy purchases in the United States from 2009 to 2018. In 2018, approximately 10.3 million individual life insurance policies were purchased in the United States.

Number of individual life insurance policy purchases in the United States from 2009 to 2018 (in millions)

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Release date

October 2019

Region

United States

Survey time period

2009 to 2018

Supplementary notes

Policies issued by fraternal benefit societies are considered individual business.

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