Capital intensity of insurance industry in the U.S. 2017, by branch
This statistics shows the capital intensity of insurance industry in the United States in 2017, by branch. Capital intensity is the ratio of equity or capital required to generate one U.S. dollar of revenue. In 2017, life insurance companies had a capital intensity of 95 percent in the United States, whereas health insurance companies had a capital intensity ratio of ten percent according to McKinsey. This means that life insurance companies needed almost ten times more capital to generate revenue than health insurance companies did.
