11 markets mapped · South America · verified 2026-09-07

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Insurers Global is an open, machine-readable directory of the world’s insurance companies, built one market at a time. South America is mapped: 811 licensed insurers, reinsurers and takaful operators across 11 countries, each reconciled against the supervisor’s own register where one is published. More regions follow.

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Licensed insurers per country1–1920–3132–3940–5859+not yet covered

811Licensed insurers811 South America 11Countries covered5 verified against a full register 11Supervisory authorities 33Multi-country groups

Browse South America by region

South America: 4 sub-regions

Eleven markets from Colombia to Chile. Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Peru are reconciled against their registers or industry directories (four rows in five); the rest are compiled from market knowledge and flagged as such.

All 11 countries

1 countries

Guianas

15 licensed insurers

Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana: small Caribbean-facing markets served by Caribbean groups and, in French Guiana, by French insurers under ACPR supervision.

Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana15

5 countries

Andean

159 licensed insurers

Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia and Venezuela, from Colombia’s SFC-supervised bancassurance groups and ARL workers-compensation carriers to Venezuela’s hyperinflation-distorted market.

Colombia50Venezuela39Ecuador31Peru20

1 countries

Brazil

202 licensed insurers

Latin America’s largest market: SUSEP-supervised insurers, open pension (previdência) and capitalização companies, with health plan operators under ANS.

Brazil202

4 countries

Southern Cone

435 licensed insurers

Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay. Argentina’s SSN register itemises ART workers-compensation, retiro and admitted foreign reinsurers; Chile splits general and life companies under the CMF.

Argentina330Chile58Paraguay32Uruguay15

Largest markets

Where the licences are

South America

Classes of business

What they are licensed to write

Ownership

Domestic private 430
Foreign multinational 288
Mutual / cooperative 54
State-owned / parastatal 38
Regional / multilateral 1

For AI agents

Query the directory without scraping

Every page registers WebMCP tools through navigator.modelContext, and the same data is published as a static JSON API with an OpenAPI description and an llms.txt.

Read the agent guide Try /api/v1/countries.json

curl https://insurers.global/api/v1/countries/kenya.json | jq '.regulator, .total'

Every licensed insurer,one map at a time.