Good results of the French life insurance market in 2019

Despite a difficult environment related to low interest rates, the French life insurance market performed well in 2019.

The premiums collected by life insurance companies amounted to 144.6 billion EUR (161.932 billion USD) in 2019 compared to 139.7 billion EUR (159.788 billion USD) in 2018, an increase of 3.5% The paid benefits reached 118.7 billion EUR (132.927 billion USD) against 118.2 billion EUR (135.196 billion USD) one year before, slightly increasing by 0.4%.

The net inflows amounted to 25.9 billion EUR (29.004 USD) by the end of December 2019 versus 21.5 billion EUR (24.591 billion USD) at the same period of 2018.

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