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Life insurance premium depends on the mortality, rates, interest rates and other expenses to be incurred by the insurance. The mortality rate indicates the probability of a person belonging to a certain age group dying before his or her birthday. Thus if a person dies before the term insurance end there will be a claim on the insurance company which will result in a cash outflow. Thus pricing of the insurance premium depends on the expected cash outflows (probability x sum insured) and other expenses discounted using an appropriate interest rate
In the given case the person is a woman aged 50 and sum insured is $ 1million . The probability of the woman dying in the next 2 years as per mortality table is given below
Age 51 Probability of dying for a female 0.003491
Age 52 Probability of dying for a female 0.003801
Hence Beginning of year 1 the premium to be charged is 1,000,000 x 0.003491 = $ 3,491
Beginning of year 2 the premium to be charged is 1,000,000 x 0.003801 = $ 3,801
Since interest rate is assumed to be zero discounting is not done.