Term insurance gives life indemnity reporting for a individual time span of years in exchange for a individual premium. The coverage does not amass currency value. Term is broadly chatting deliberated "pure" indemnity, where the premium buys security in the outcome of death and none else.

There are three key elements to be deliberated in term life insurance:

1. Face allotment (protection or death benefit),
2. Premium to be paid (cost to the insured), and
3. Length of reporting (term).

Various policy insurers trade time span indemnity with more divergent aggregations of these three parameters. The face allotment can continue unfailing or decline. The time span can be for one or more years. The premiums boost at the end of each period and can become prohibitively costly for older individuals. A level term coverage locks in the per annum premium for intervals of up to 30 years.