🚪 GTIAS Risk Leaderboard

Barriers to Entry & Exit

Industries ranked by the combined difficulty of entering as a new competitor and exiting as an incumbent, based on the GTIAS Market Contestability & Exit Friction attribute (ER06).

25 Industries Ranked

422 Total Industries Scored

ER06 GTIAS Attribute

What this tells you

High-scoring industries are effectively fortress markets — new entrants face prohibitive gating, and incumbents face terminal liabilities that make exit nearly impossible.

Top 25 — Barriers to Entry & Exit

Ranked directly by the Market Contestability & Exit Friction score (GTIAS ER06) — not a pillar average. Score out of 5.0 — higher indicates greater structural risk exposure.

#	ISIC	Industry	Risk Score
1	0510	Mining of hard coal	5/5
2	0710	Mining of iron ores	5/5
3	0810	Quarrying of stone, sand and clay	5/5
4	0892	Extraction of peat	5/5
5	1910	Manufacture of coke oven products	5/5
6	0114	Growing of sugar cane	4/5
7	0124	Growing of pome fruits and stone fruits	4/5
8	0126	Growing of oleaginous fruits	4/5
9	0129	Growing of other perennial crops	4/5
10	0146	Raising of poultry	4/5
11	0163	Post-harvest crop activities	4/5
12	0520	Mining of lignite	4/5
13	0610	Extraction of crude petroleum	4/5
14	0620	Extraction of natural gas	4/5
15	0721	Mining of uranium and thorium ores	4/5
16	0729	Mining of other non-ferrous metal ores	4/5
17	0891	Mining of chemical and fertilizer minerals	4/5
18	0893	Extraction of salt	4/5
19	0910	Support activities for petroleum and natural gas extraction	4/5
20	0990	Support activities for other mining and quarrying	4/5
21	1072	Manufacture of sugar	4/5
22	1073	Manufacture of cocoa, chocolate and sugar confectionery	4/5
23	1200	Manufacture of tobacco products	4/5
24	1430	Manufacture of knitted and crocheted apparel	4/5
25	1511	Tanning and dressing of leather; dressing and dyeing of fur	4/5

Methodology

Rankings reflect the ER06 — Market Contestability & Exit Friction score directly for each of 422 profiled industries that have an assessed score for this attribute — not a pillar average. Scores range from 0–5 — higher indicates greater structural risk exposure. No editorial weighting is applied. Learn more about the GTIAS methodology.