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Life and non-life insurance companies, 2009
3 Life insurance companies. Investments in subsiduaries and other shares,
participations and primary capital certificates by sector1. 31 December. NOK Million
Sector 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009*
     
Total 134 546 177 766 271 313 322 803 235 253 279 375
     
General government . . . . . .
Central government . . . . . .
County municipalities . . . . . .
Municipalities . . . . . .
     
Financial enterprises 43 764 54 585 83 503 125 829 80 618 110 962
State lending institutions . . . . . .
Banks 144 60 1 . 6 12
Mortgage companies 188 203 225 268 431 .
Finance companies . . . . . .
Units trust(UK)/Mutual funds (US) 41 164 52 093 80 617 122 189 78 392 106 952
Other financial enterprises 1 901 1 695 1 676 2 291 453 1 914
Life insurance companies etc. . . 49 126 182 85
Non-life insurance companies 195 285 288 283 702 784
Financial auxiliaries 172 250 646 673 452 1 216
     
Non-financial enterprises 25 406 33 627 69 544 85 706 86 034 85 490
Central government enterprises . . . . . .
Other state enterprises 2 945 4 798 3 947 7 777 2 010 4 062
Municipal enterprises 31 15 3 3 2 0
Private incorporated companies 22 431 28 814 65 594 77 925 84 022 81 428
Private non-profit institutions . . . . . .
     
Houshold etc. . . 0 61 28 12
Quasi-corporated private enterprises (i.e. partnership companies, joint ownership etc.) . . . . 11 12
Private non-profit institutions serving households . . . . . .
Unincorporated private enterprises . . . . . .
Households of employees . . . . . .
Unspecified sector . . 0 61 17 0
     
Rest of the world 65 375 89 554 118 266 111 208 68 573 82 911

1From January 2008, new annual account regulation for insurance companies adapted to the new International FinancialReporting Standards (IFRS) was introduced. New regulation for life insurance was introduced at the same time. Bothchanges have had an impact on the content and presentation of the insurance statistics. The statistics from 2008 cannot be compared with those from previous years.

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