(Fortune) -- AEGON N.V. (Charts) ranks no. 149 on FORTUNE's Global 500 this year, with $37.7 billion in revenues, up 6.3% from the previous year. The The Hague, Netherlands-based company was ranked no. 136 on the 2005 list. Its 2005 profits were $3.4 billion, up 64.1% from a year earlier. 2005 was a banner year for most Global 500 companies.

It took $13.7 billion in revenue just to make this year's list - up from $12.4 billion last year. And profits for the 500 companies jumped 30%. Total revenues for the Global 500 in 2006 add up to $18.9 trillion, a third of the world's GDP.

In the Insurance: Life, Health industry, profits were up 37.8% from the previous year. The world's biggest companies in the sector are: ING Group (Charts), ranked no. 13 on the Global 500 with $138.2 billion in revenues; AXA (Charts), ranked no. 15 on the Global 500 with $129.8 billion in revenues; Assicurazioni Generali Spa, ranked no. 21 on the Global 500 with $101.4 billion in revenues; and Aviva.plc, ranked no. 28 on the Global 500 with $92.6 billion in revenues.

The Global 500 list is an annual ranking of the world's largest corporations by revenues.

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