The first year (or new business) premium of life insurance companies increased by a marginal 2.5 per cent from a year ago to ₹19,699.28 crore as of June 30, 2014.
According to data from Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA), the largest life insurer state-run LIC contributed over 71 per cent share to the total new business premium for the period ended June at ₹14,015.92 crore.
The private insurers collected premium of ₹5,683.36 crore as of June, 2014.
Among private life insurance companies, HDFC Standard collected premium of ₹810.40 crore (up 38.6 per cent year on year) as of June, 2014.
ICICI Prudential ₹782.21 crore (up 38.4 per cent) and SBI Life collected ₹732.81 crore (up 2.2 per cent) as first year premium.
Of the others in private sector, Reliance Life had first year business premium of ₹553.66 (up 7.8 per cent) as of June 2014, Bajaj Allianz ₹391.93 crore (down 10.5 per cent), Max Life ₹465.69 crore (up 21.6 per cent) and Birla Sunlife ₹204 crore (down 47 per cent).
There are a total of 24 life insurers in the country.
However, the total number of policies or schemes for the period up to June for the first year premium for the life insurance companies came down to 38,19,547 from 61,78,231 a year ago.