Natural-Disaster Insurance Gap Now Exceeds $420 Billion Globally

Published on June 5, 2026

While insurance coverage has broadly kept pace with rising catastrophe exposure, the protection gap — in absolute terms — has gone up as the value of exposed assets has grown, the Swiss Re Institute said on Wednesday.

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