Life insurance is one of the most dynamically developing segments of the national economy in the most of the developed countries. In the Czech Republic the life insurance has been still lag behind the required level. To improve the current situation it is necessary to reveal causes, respectively factors that affect the life insurance market and its development the most. In general, there are internal and external factors. Internal factors are in particular the interventions of the insurance supervisory body and the behavior of the insurance market participants. On the opposite, external factors affect the insurance market from the outside by influencing the overall economic environment. The scope of the paper is an analysis of the development of the life insurance market in dependence on the selected macro-economic figures.