## Figure 1.21. Chinese Insurers

## Source details

**Canonical URL:** [Figure 1.21. Chinese Insurers](https://www.imf.org/-/media/files/publications/gfsr/2018/april/ch1/csv/figure1-21.csv)

## Other formats

- [Markdown version](/-/media/files/publications/gfsr/2018/april/ch1/csv/figure1-21.csv.md)
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### Dataset overview
- Worksheet name: "csv"
- Row count: 1107
- Column count: 31
- Primary title string in sheet: "Figure 1.21. Chinese Insurers"

### Major thematic groupings (as presented in the sheet header rows)
- 1. Insurance Sector Total Assets
- 2. Annual Insurance Premiums
- 3. Equity Performance and Volatility
- 4. Non-Fixed-Income Assets and Capital
- 6. Capital and Alternative Investments, 2016

### Column headings and units (extracted from header rows)
- "Total (trillions of renminbi)"
- "Percent of GDP "
- "Percent of financial system "
- "(Trillions of renminbi)"
- "(Percent of total assets)"
- "Equity performance" (2014 = 100)
- "Volatility" (percent)
- "Property insurance"
- "Traditional life "
- "Universal life"
- "China insurance"
- "China banks"
- "Heng Seng index"
- "Capital"
- "Equity, funds, and \"other assets\""
- "Alternative investments"
- "Bubble size"

### Sample data points (exact values from sample rows)
- For 2010:
  - Total (trillions of renminbi): "5.05"
  - Percent of GDP: "12.2"
  - Percent of financial system: "4.5"
- For 2013 (annual insurance premiums categories):
  - Property insurance: "0.65"
  - Traditional life: "0.74"
  - Universal life: "0.33"
- Equity performance and volatility (indexed):
  - Index date: "1/1/2014"
  - Equity performance (2014 = 100): "100" (China insurance), "100" (China banks), "100" (Heng Seng index)
  - Volatility reference date: "1/1/2014"
  - Volatility (percent): "29.37" (China insurance), "20.1" (China banks), "13.41" (Heng Seng index)
- Other timestamps and values:
  - Equity data point date: "1/31/2013"
  - Capital (percent of assets or percent of total assets context): "13.71"
  - Alternative investments (percent of assets/context): "46.43"
  - Bubble size (numeric): "5953244.23"

### Structural and formatting notes (preserve when ingesting)
- Several header rows contain merged thematic headings spanning multiple physical columns (e.g., section titles followed by unit rows).
- Numeric columns include mixed datatypes: years ("2010", "2013"), dates ("1/1/2014", "1/31/2013"), plain numeric strings with decimals, and quoted labels.
- The sheet contains empty cells in multiple header and top rows; column semantics are conveyed by stacked header rows rather than single-line column names.

*Source: figure1-21 (csv worksheet) from the provided dataset metadata.*

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_Source: https://www.imf.org/-/media/files/publications/gfsr/2018/april/ch1/csv/figure1-21.csv_