Insurers.globalAfrica

50 markets mapped · Africa · verified 2026-09-04

Every licensed insurer,
one map at a time.

Insurers Global is an open, machine-readable directory of the world’s insurance companies, built one market at a time. Africa is mapped: 886 licensed insurers, reinsurers and takaful operators across 50 countries, each reconciled against the supervisor’s own register where one is published. More regions follow.

Built for people and for AI agents. See the WebMCP tools and JSON API →

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World map of covered insurance markets
Licensed insurers per country1–45–67–1415–2324+not yet covered
886Licensed insurers886 Africa50Countries covered11 verified against a full register38Supervisory authorities52Multi-country groups

Browse Africa by region

Africa: six sub-regions

Fifty markets, each reconciled line by line against the supervisor’s register where one is published.

All 50 countries
7 countries

North Africa

120 licensed insurers

Arabic- and French-speaking markets from Morocco to Egypt, with strong state carriers and takaful.

Egypt38Algeria22Morocco22Tunisia22
14 countries

West Africa

204 licensed insurers

ECOWAS and CIMA-zone markets where pan-African groups such as Sunu, NSIA and Sanlam Allianz dominate.

Nigeria51Ghana48Côte d'Ivoire23Burkina Faso15
7 countries

Central Africa

62 licensed insurers

CEMAC markets supervised under the CIMA code, plus DR Congo under its own regulator.

Cameroon29Angola11Democratic Republic of the Congo8Gabon7
10 countries

East Africa

184 licensed insurers

The East African Community and Horn markets, led by Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Ethiopia.

Kenya64Tanzania40Uganda35Ethiopia19
9 countries

Southern Africa

291 licensed insurers

SADC markets anchored by South Africa, the continent’s deepest insurance sector.

South Africa140Zimbabwe69Zambia22Botswana14
3 countries

Indian Ocean

25 licensed insurers

Island markets with outsized reinsurance and offshore activity relative to population.

Mauritius18Madagascar4Seychelles3

Largest markets

Where the licences are

Africa

  1. South Africa140
  2. Zimbabwe69
  3. Kenya64
  4. Nigeria51
  5. Ghana48

Classes of business

What they are licensed to write

Ownership

  • Domestic private 446
  • Pan-African group 274
  • Foreign multinational 77
  • State-owned / parastatal 66
  • Mutual / cooperative 17
  • Regional / multilateral 6

2026 market notes

Regulatory events shaping the register

For AI agents

Query the directory without scraping

Every page registers WebMCP tools through navigator.modelContext, and the same data is published as a static JSON API with an OpenAPI description and an llms.txt.

Read the agent guideTry /api/v1/countries.json
curl https://insurers.global/api/v1/countries/kenya.json | jq '.regulator, .total'