Germany Motor Insurance Market - Growth, Trends, COVID-19 Impact, and Forecasts (2022 - 2027)

The impact of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is expected to result in a non-life re/insurance market loss of between Euro 1.25 billion to Euro 1.75 billion (USD 1.47bn - USD 2.1bn) in Germany, influenced mostly by nationwide business closures.

German insurers are often globally positioned, which reduces susceptibility to weak results in the domestic market. In 2021, the estimated revenue of the industry is Euro 2.2 billion. 23.1% will be generated by the subindustry "Life insurance".

All drivers in Germany must be covered by some form of car insurance, people cannot register a vehicle without it. If a person is a long-term resident of Germany, they need German car insurance, even if they have brought a car from abroad to Germany, foreign car insurance is not enough.

Digitalization is a central concern of the German insurance industry. Many insurance companies are currently modernizing their IT infrastructures, moving to cloud solutions or investing in new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) or blockchain in order to provide enhanced products and services to their customers. In 2021, German insurers spent USD 416.77 million in total on IT, one of the key investment priorities in insurance companies include the optimization of business processes, the operating organization and the insurance IT. This weighting has increased further by the momentum of Digitization and their dynamic effects on competitiveness.

Key Market Trends

Increase in Number of Contracts in Motor Insurance

Automotive is the largest segment of the insurance industry in Germany, most German non-life insurers are reasonably focused on auto insurance, with Auto insurance holding the largest share of non-life insurance premiums on the insurance market, which is EUR 2.2 billion in 2021. This has surged the number of contracts in motor insurance year-on-year, thus driving the growth of the motor insurance industry.

Increase in Electric Cars Sales is Driving the Demand of Motor Insurance

In full calendar year 2021, Volkswagen was the top-selling electric car brand in Germany supplying the German market with over a fifth of all battery-electric cars sold. Tesla moved ahead of Renault while Hyundai outsold Smart. The Tesla Model 3 was the favorite electric car model in Germany in 2021 ahead of the VW Up and the VW ID3. Electric car sales in Germany increased by 83% and market share doubled to 13.6%.

New electric passenger vehicle registrations in Germany in 2021 increased by 83.3% to 355,961 battery-electric cars. This more than doubled electric cars’ share of the German new car market from 6.65% in 2020 to a new record high 13.6% in 2021.

The total German new car market contracted by 10.1% in 2021 to only 2,622,132 cars compared to 2,917,678 in 2020. These two years were the weakest for the German vehicle market since 2010. Although petrol remained by far the largest component of new cars, its market share slipped to 37.1% (46.7% in 2020), while the share for diesel was down to 20.1% (28.1% in 2020).

Competitive Landscape

The Germany motor insurance market report covers the major players operating in the Germany motor insurance market. The market is moderately consolidated. Moreover, the market is expected to grow during the forecast period due to increase in automobile sales and many other factors.

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• The market estimate (ME) sheet in Excel format
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