European Central Bank — Insurance Corporations Assets and Liabilities (ICB)
Official time series dataset on the balance sheets of insurance corporations in the euro area, published by the European Central Bank as the ICB dataflow through the ECB Data Portal. Data is delivered over an SDMX 2.1 REST API, with a single endpoint serving SDMX-ML (XML), CSV, and JSON formats. Users can extract specific series using a key path together with startPeriod, endPeriod, and lastNObservations filters, allowing targeted retrieval of assets and liabilities data. The same series can also be browsed and charted interactively on the ECB Data Portal, supporting economic and monetary analysis of the insurance sector.Insurance Corporations Assets and Liabilities (ICB) — official time series from the European Central Bank Data Portal, published as the ICB dataflow over SDMX 2.1 REST. One endpoint serves XML (SDMX-ML), CSV (?format=csvdata) and JSON (?format=jsondata); extract exactly the series you need with a key path and startPeriod / endPeriod / lastNObservations filters. Browse and chart the same series on the ECB Data Portal.
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Data schema (33 fields)
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| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| FREQFrequency | dimension | 1 codes (e.g. Quarterly) |
| REF_AREAReference area | dimension | 22 codes (e.g. Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria) |
| COMP_APPROACHCompilation approach indicator | dimension | 1 codes (e.g. Undesignated reporting perimeter) |
| REPORTING_SECTOR | dimension | 5 codes (e.g. Insurance corporations, Reinsurance corporations, Life insurance corporations excluding reinsurance corporations) |
| ICPF_ITEMInsurance corporations and pension funds assets and liabilities | dimension | 50 codes (e.g. Asset - Currency and deposits - fair value, Asset - Currency and deposits - fair value - o/w transferable deposits, Asset - Loans - fair value) |
| MATURITY | dimension | 11 codes (e.g. All original maturities, All original maturities with long-term residual maturity (over 1 year), All original maturities with short-term residual maturity (up to 1 year)) |
| DATA_TYPE | dimension | 3 codes (e.g. Outstanding amounts at the end of the period (stocks), Financial transactions (flows), Annual growth rate) |
| COUNTERPART_AREA | dimension | 43 codes (e.g. World (all entities, including reference area, including IO), Austria, Belgium) |
| COUNTERPART_SECTOR | dimension | 11 codes (e.g. Total economy, Monetary financial institutions (MFI), Non MMF investment funds) |
| CURRENCY_TRANSCurrency of transaction | dimension | 1 codes (e.g. All currencies) |
| CURRENCY_DENOMCurrency denominator | dimension | 1 codes (e.g. Euro) |
| TIME_PERIODTime period or range | time | Time dimension — filter with startPeriod / endPeriod query params. |
| OBS_VALUEObservation value | number | The observed numeric value for each cell. |
| TIME_FORMATTime format code | attribute | — |
| BREAKS | attribute | — |
| COMMENT_TSSeries comment including brief description of the underlying statistic | attribute | — |
| COMPILING_ORGCompiling organisation | attribute | — |
| COVERAGE | attribute | — |
| DATA_COMPUnderlying compilation | attribute | — |
| DECIMALS | attribute | — |
| DISS_ORGData dissemination organisation | attribute | — |
| PUBL_ECBSource publication (ECB only) | attribute | — |
| PUBL_MUSource publication (Euro area only) | attribute | — |
| PUBL_PUBLICSource publication (public) | attribute | — |
| REF_PERIOD_DETAILReference period detail | attribute | — |
| TIME_PER_COLLECTTime period collection | attribute | — |
| TITLE | attribute | — |
| TITLE_COMPLTitle complement | attribute | — |
| UNIT | attribute | — |
| UNIT_MULTUnit multiplier | attribute | — |
| OBS_STATUSObservation status | attribute | — |
| CONF_STATUSConfidentiality status | attribute | — |
| PRE_BREAK_VALUE | attribute | — |
Schema captured from sdmx 1 month ago.
Query the data
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Sample data (5 records)
Record 1FREQ: Q · MATURITY: T
{
"FREQ": "Q",
"MATURITY": "T",
"REF_AREA": "AT",
"DATA_TYPE": "1",
"ICPF_ITEM": "A10",
"OBS_VALUE": 2596,
"TIME_PERIOD": "2026-Q1",
"COMP_APPROACH": "X",
"CURRENCY_DENOM": "EUR",
"CURRENCY_TRANS": "_T",
"COUNTERPART_AREA": "W0",
"REPORTING_SECTOR": "S128",
"COUNTERPART_SECTOR": "S1"
}Record 2FREQ: Q · MATURITY: T
{
"FREQ": "Q",
"MATURITY": "T",
"REF_AREA": "AT",
"DATA_TYPE": "1",
"ICPF_ITEM": "A11",
"OBS_VALUE": 1863,
"TIME_PERIOD": "2026-Q1",
"COMP_APPROACH": "X",
"CURRENCY_DENOM": "EUR",
"CURRENCY_TRANS": "_T",
"COUNTERPART_AREA": "W0",
"REPORTING_SECTOR": "S128",
"COUNTERPART_SECTOR": "S1"
}Record 3FREQ: Q · MATURITY: T
{
"FREQ": "Q",
"MATURITY": "T",
"REF_AREA": "AT",
"DATA_TYPE": "1",
"ICPF_ITEM": "A20",
"OBS_VALUE": 5833,
"TIME_PERIOD": "2026-Q1",
"COMP_APPROACH": "X",
"CURRENCY_DENOM": "EUR",
"CURRENCY_TRANS": "_T",
"COUNTERPART_AREA": "W0",
"REPORTING_SECTOR": "S128",
"COUNTERPART_SECTOR": "S1"
}Record 4FREQ: Q · MATURITY: T
{
"FREQ": "Q",
"MATURITY": "T",
"REF_AREA": "AT",
"DATA_TYPE": "1",
"ICPF_ITEM": "A21",
"OBS_VALUE": 436,
"TIME_PERIOD": "2026-Q1",
"COMP_APPROACH": "X",
"CURRENCY_DENOM": "EUR",
"CURRENCY_TRANS": "_T",
"COUNTERPART_AREA": "W0",
"REPORTING_SECTOR": "S128",
"COUNTERPART_SECTOR": "S1"
}Record 5FREQ: Q · MATURITY: T
{
"FREQ": "Q",
"MATURITY": "T",
"REF_AREA": "AT",
"DATA_TYPE": "1",
"ICPF_ITEM": "A30",
"OBS_VALUE": 39994,
"TIME_PERIOD": "2026-Q1",
"COMP_APPROACH": "X",
"CURRENCY_DENOM": "EUR",
"CURRENCY_TRANS": "_T",
"COUNTERPART_AREA": "W0",
"REPORTING_SECTOR": "S128",
"COUNTERPART_SECTOR": "S1"
}Live sample captured at profiling time — values may have changed upstream.
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