The Hungarian insurance sector’s cumulative premium income amounted to HUF 1,961.74 billion in 2025 (EUR 5.09 billion), 15.7% higher y-o-y, data provided by the National Bank of Hungary show. While the life insurance premium income rose by 27.8%, non-life GWP increased by 8.48%.
U-L or index-linked life insurance and motor insurance saw the highest growth in the last quarter of the year.
In 2025 the insurance sector’s aggregated technical income was 55.3% higher y-o-y. This reflected an increase of HUF 13.2 billion and HUF 35.9 billion in technical income of the life insurance and in non-life insurance businesses, respectively, relative to a year earlier.
According to the profitability data of the insurance companies, it is seen that based on the return on equity (ROE) values in 2025 there were no insurers with an ROE value below 0% compared to 3 in the previous year. There are 7 insurers with ROE values between 0% and 10%, 4 companies had ROE values between 11% and 20% as opposed to 2024 (12 and 6), and 9 companies had values between 21% and 30% compared to 2 one a year earlier. As opposed to 2024, when no insurance company had a ROE of over 30%, in 2025 3 insurers reported ROE of over 30%.
Insurers' after-tax profit for 2025 Q1-Q4 amounted to HUF 115.2 billion, showing an increase of 140% compared to the figure seen in the previous year. All insurance companies made profits in 2025 Q1-Q4.
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STATISTICS: HUNGARY, FY2025: Visibly improved profitability of the insurance undertakings
12 March 2026 — Daniela GHETU
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