Insurance and financial services

Financial services covers services related to financial intermediation, financial risk management, liquidity transformation or auxiliary financial activities. It also includes insurance and pension scheme services which are services related to providing life insurance and annuities, non-life insurance, reinsurance, pensions, standardised guarantees and auxiliary services to insurance, pension schemes, and standardised guarantee schemes. This indicator is expressed as a percentage of service exports which are commercial services provided by residents to non-residents.

Publisher
World Bank
Unit
Cadence
Annual
Series
191
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Updated
2026-09-06

Provenance

Who produced these figures, as World Bank declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.

  1. Produced by

    International Monetary Fund

    Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF)

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

  2. Read from

    World Bank

    World Development Indicators

    declared by worldbank in source

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Albania20250.35percent
Angola20250.01percent
Antigua and Barbuda20255.86percent
Argentina20251.76percent
Armenia202511.79percent
Australia20254.70percent
Austria20254.06percent
Azerbaijan20252.97percent
Bangladesh20252.83percent
Belgium20258.84percent

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