Rascasse Audience Intelligence

Life insurance Audience in South Africa

A data profile of the people who buy, follow and care about Life insurance in South Africa — modelled from more than twelve digital signal sources. Life insurance has an estimated audience of 1,464,109 people in South Africa.

#328among Topic in South Africa
#78in Business & Career

Life insurance has an estimated audience of 1,464,109 people in South Africa. 51.5% are female, 48.5% are male, average age 41.0. Top brand affinities: Insurance policy, Insurance, ShopRite (United States), Underwriting, Sanlam.

Top brand affinities include Insurance policy, Insurance, ShopRite (United States), with strongest over-indexing on Insurance policy (3.09× the country average).

Demographically, the Life insurance audience skews balanced with an average age of 41.0, and over-indexes on personality traits such as Social Media Usage, Spirituality.

The typical Life insurance fan in South Africa is balanced, around 41.0 years old, with strong Social Media Usage tendencies and a notable affinity for Insurance policy.

Category: Business & Career · Type: Topic

The data on this page comes from the Rascasse audience panel and is refreshed monthly from search, social and browsing signals. As of 2026-08-18.

Section 01

At a glance

The key figures that characterise the Life insurance profile in South Africa.

Audience size
1.5M
in South Africa
Gender
51.5%
48.5% male
Age
41.0
average years
Country rank
#473
Topic in South Africa
Fig. 01

Search interest · 12-month trend

-37%
vs. last year
JanMarMayJulSepNov
Monthly searches · Source: Rascasse Audience Intelligence
Section 02

Demographics of Life insurance fans

51.5% are female, 48.5% are male, average age 41.0.

Fig. 02

Gender split

51.5%
Female
48.5%
Male
Demographic split for Life insurance audience in South Africa
MetricValue
Female51.5%
Male48.5%
Average age41.0
Estimated audience size1,464,109
Fig. 03

Age distribution

Ø 41.0
average years
Age distribution of the Life insurance audience in South Africa
Age bracketShare%
16-1911%
20-2924%
30-3923%
40-4917%
50+24%
Fig. 04

Worldwide distribution

1.5%

of the worldwide Life insurance audience comes from South Africa.

Worldwide audience distribution share by country for Life insurance
CountryShare
United States27.1%
United Kingdom8.8%
India7.3%
Section 04
Brands and entities this audience over-indexes on, vs. the country average.

Audience interests & affinities

The strongest cross-interests of the Life insurance audience — brands, topics and people combined.

Fig. 07

Top cross-interests, ranked by affinity

Top brand affinities (over-index vs. country average) for Life insurance audience
#·InterestCategoryAffinity×
01Insurance policyBusiness & Career3.09×
02UnderwritingBusiness & Career2.85×
03Midas (automotive service)Cars & Mobility2.77×
04Primary health careHealth2.77×
05Call centreTechnology & Electronics2.50×
06Home insuranceBusiness & Career2.42×
07SanlamBusiness & Career2.17×
08General insuranceBusiness & Career2.08×
09Term life insuranceBusiness & Career2.02×
10LottolandGames1.84×
11Metropolitan OperaArts & Culture1.84×
12Raf (singer)Music & Radio1.83×
13Health insuranceBusiness & Career1.75×
14ShopRite (United States)Food & Beverages1.71×
15Vehicle insuranceCars & Mobility1.69×
16Financial adviserBusiness & Career1.67×
17Old MutualBusiness & Career1.58×
18InsuranceBusiness & Career1.53×
19Interest rateBusiness & Career1.52×
20LoanBusiness & Career1.51×
Section 05
Top six personality traits over-indexed by this audience (1.0 = country average).

Personality of the Life insurance audience

Values above 1.00× are above the country average, values below 1.00× below it.

Fig. 08

Deviation from the national baseline

What stands out
The strongest tendencies
Top personality traits over-indexed by Life insurance audience · What stands out
TraitClusterDeviationScore
Social Media UsageJOY0.84×
SpiritualityBALANCE0.66×
TravellingTHRILL0.42×
1.00× baseline
Rather not
The weakest tendencies
Top personality traits over-indexed by Life insurance audience · Rather not
TraitClusterDeviationScore
Healthy LifestyleBALANCE0.28×
PatriotismCONSERVATISM0.34×
TravellingTHRILL0.42×
1.00× baseline
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How to read this data

Audience size is the estimated number of people in South Africa who actively search for Life insurance. Affinity is an over-index ratio: 2.0× means the audience is twice as likely to engage with that brand or trait as the country average. Reach is the estimated number of audience members in a region. Regional and brand-affinity tables are sorted from strongest signal to weakest.

About this audience profile

This audience profile is generated by Rascasse from anonymized search-behavior signals across South Africa. For methodology see methodology. Affinity values are over-index ratios vs. the country average (1.0 = baseline). Audience sizes are estimated, not measured.

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