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Record-Breaking Life Insurance Application Activity Continues in April

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U.S. life insurance application activity continues a pattern of record-breaking growth in April with year-to-date activity up +10.2%, slightly exceeding last month's YTD growth and setting a new high for any month on record, MIB reported. Year-over-year activity in April 2021 was up over April 2020 by an impressive 10.7% continuing strong growth in 2021. While the YOY comparison is impacted by a drop in April 2020 activity due to COVID, when comparing results for prior years, April 2021 activity is still higher than April 2019 by +6.7% and higher than April 2018 by +5.1%.

All age groups experienced YOY growth for the second straight month. Age 71+ saw the highest YOY gain in the month of April, reversing a 12 month trend where this age group previously had the lowest YOY activity (April 2020 - March 2021). Ages 0-30 grew by +15.4%, ages 31-50 by +6.1%, ages 51-60 by +10.4%, ages 61-70 by +15.0% and ages 71+ grew by +20.4%.

On a month-over-month (MOM) basis, April saw a normal seasonal decline over March of -13.5%. While the April over March decline in 2021 was higher than most years, this can be attributed to the fact that March 2021 had record-breaking activity. Worthy of noting, while declines were seen across all age groups MOM, declines got smaller as age increased.

YOY growth was seen across all face amounts in April, with double-digit growth for amounts up to $250K, for amounts over $1M up to and including $2.5M and for face amounts over $5M. YOY growth was generally seen across all age groups and face amounts with a notable exception of a large double-digit decline in activity for face amounts over $5M for ages 71+.

Double digit growth was seen YOY for ages 0-30 for face amounts up to $250K and over $5M, age 31-50 for amounts over $1M up to and including $2.5M and over $5M, age 51-60 for amounts up to $250K and over $500K, for ages 61-70 for face amounts up to and including $2.5M and over $5M, and for ages 71+ for face amounts up to and including $500K as well as over $1M up to and including $5M.

Term life saw a slight decline in April YOY of -1.7% while Universal Life and Whole Life saw double digit increases. When examining age bands, age 0-30 experienced slight growth (<2.5%) in Term Life and double-digit growth in other categories with significant double-digit growth in Whole Life. All other age bands had consistent double-digit growth in Universal and Whole life with slight declines (<3.5%) or flat results for Term Life. In general, the most significant growth in Term and Whole Life was among those ages 0-30 while the strongest growth for Universal Life was among that age 71+.

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