Natural-Disaster Insurance Gap Now Exceeds $420B Globally

Natural-Disaster Insurance Gap Now Exceeds $420 Billion Globally

Natural-disaster insurance gap now exceeds $420B globally

While insurance coverage has broadly kept pace with rising catastrophe exposure, the protection gap — in absolute terms — has gone up as the value of exposed assets has grown, the Swiss Re Institute said on Wednesday.

Adaptation projects essential for narrowing global nat cat protection gap: Swiss Re

A new report from Swiss Re has suggested that the rising value of natural catastrophe-exposed assets, and the resulting increase in the absolute protection gap, continues to pose resilience risks, even though insurance cover has broadly kept pace with rapidly growing exposures, highlighting the need for targeted adaptation projects that reduce expected losses, lower physical vulnerability, support insurability and improve the economics of risk t…

Insurance cover growing broadly in line with increasing natural catastrophe risk: Swiss Re - Artemis.bm

While the global natural catastrophe insurance protection gap is estimated to have risen to US $424 billion in 2025, new research from Swiss Re's

Natural-disaster insurance gap now exceeds US$420 billion globally: Swiss Re report

At the current pace, insured losses have the potential to hit US$186 billion by 2030 Read more at The Business Times.