Insurance data include: all gross insurance premiums and those relating only to direct insurance; spending on insurance per capita; and the market share of national insurance by country, relative to the OECD market total.

National insurance market share is defined as a country's national insurance market compared with the OECD insurance market total. It measures the importance of the national insurance market as an index using the OECD insurance market total as base; OECD=100.

This report analyses existing competitive research funding mechanisms and their effectiveness, taking into account a variety of contextual factors. It focuses on the efficiency of funding allocation mechanisms relative to their objectives. The main elements of this project have been an extensive...