The insurance companies operating in Croatia reported a combined premium income of 7.232 billion kuna ($1.5 billion/1.0 billion euro) in the first nine months of 2009, down from 7.38 billion kuna a year earlier, the country's financial watchdog said on Thursday.
Non-life insurance premiums totalled 5.484 billion kuna through September and life insurance premiums accounted for the remainder, the Financial Services Supervision Agency said on its website.
The Croatian insurers reported a combined premium income of 9.67 billion kuna for 2008, up from 9.05 billion kuna in 2007.
Twenty-seven insurers operate in the Adriatic country of 4.4 million people.
(1 euro = 7.253 Croatian kuna)