After the earthquakes, the number of insured homes increased by 800,000

After the earthquakes in Kahramanmaraş, the number of houses with compulsory earthquake insurance increased by almost 800 thousand.

According to the information compiled from the data of the Institute of Insurance against Natural Disasters (DASK), the number of homes insured for earthquakes, which was 10 million 960 thousand 389 at the time of the earthquakes, reached 11 million 749 thousand 861 in the 80- day period.

During said period, the number of policies included in the system increased by approximately 800,000. The proportion of people with Compulsory Earthquake Insurance among 20 million 32 thousand homes throughout the country increased from 54 percent to 58.7 percent. The amount of premium produced was 3 trillion 480 billion 364 thousand TL.

THE MARMARA REGION ATTRACTS

The Marmara Region leads the insurance rate with 67 percent, followed by the Aegean Region with 59.2 percent, Eastern Anatolia with 56.8 percent, and the Central Anatolia Region with 54 percent. hundred.

53.5 percent of the houses in the Mediterranean, 52.8 percent of those in southeastern Anatolia and 48.8 percent of those in the Black Sea region have earthquake insurance.

THE HIGHEST SAFE IS IN BOLU

Bolu is one of the provinces with the highest earthquake insurance rate, at 91.9 percent. Düzce follows Bolu with 90.8 percent.

Other provinces in the top 10 with the highest insurance rate are Yalova with 87.7 percent, Tekirdağ with 85.5 percent, Muğla with 83.8 percent, Bingöl with 83.7 percent, Sakarya with 83, 4 percent and 76.5 percent and Van with 72.8%, Ardahan with 72.8% and Kocaeli with 71.4%.

ONE IN 3 HOUSES IN ISTANBUL IS UNINSURED

One in three houses in Istanbul, which has the largest population in Turkey, is uninsured. While 65.4 percent (2,715,208) of the megacity’s 4,153,000 residences had earthquake insurance, this rate stood at 58.1 percent in Ankara and 63 percent in Izmir.

Hakkari is one of the cities with the lowest insurance rate at 28.5 percent. Hakkari is followed by Gümüşhane with 34.1 percent. Said rate is 36.2 percent in Bayburt, 37.3 percent in Diyarbakir, 38 percent in Kütahya and Kırıkkale, 38.7 percent in Tokat and Isparta, 38.9 percent in Rize and Muş. It was 39.2. (AA)