🌐 GTIAS Risk Leaderboard

Geopolitical & Regulatory Risk

Industries ranked by their exposure to geopolitical shocks, trade policy volatility, sovereignty risk, and regulatory burden.

25 Industries Ranked
422 Total Industries Scored
ER + RP GTIAS Pillars
What this tells you

High-scoring industries are structurally exposed to trade route disruptions, government intervention, sanctions regimes, or cross-border compliance complexity.

Top 25 — Geopolitical & Regulatory Risk

Ranked by average score across the Functional & Economic Role and Regulatory & Policy Environment pillars. Score out of 5.0 — higher indicates greater structural risk exposure.

# ISIC Industry Risk Score
1 2520 Manufacture of weapons and ammunition
4.1/5
2 3030 Manufacture of air and spacecraft and related machinery
4/5
3 0910 Support activities for petroleum and natural gas extraction
3.9/5
4 2610 Manufacture of electronic components and boards
3.9/5
5 8422 Defence activities
3.8/5
6 0721 Mining of uranium and thorium ores
3.8/5
7 2011 Manufacture of basic chemicals
3.8/5
8 3011 Building of ships and floating structures
3.7/5
9 3040 Manufacture of military fighting vehicles
3.7/5
10 2410 Manufacture of basic iron and steel
3.7/5
11 2910 Manufacture of motor vehicles
3.6/5
12 6110 Wired telecommunications activities
3.6/5
13 0610 Extraction of crude petroleum
3.6/5
14 4661 Wholesale of solid, liquid and gaseous fuels and related products
3.6/5
15 6130 Satellite telecommunications activities
3.6/5
16 2620 Manufacture of computers and peripheral equipment
3.6/5
17 6619 Other activities auxiliary to financial service activities
3.5/5
18 2720 Manufacture of batteries and accumulators
3.5/5
19 0510 Mining of hard coal
3.5/5
20 6511 Life insurance
3.5/5
21 0729 Mining of other non-ferrous metal ores
3.5/5
22 4210 Construction of roads and railways
3.5/5
23 6512 Non-life insurance
3.5/5
24 2021 Manufacture of pesticides and other agrochemical products
3.4/5
25 2100 Manufacture of pharmaceuticals, medicinal chemical and botanical products
3.4/5
Methodology

Rankings are computed by averaging GTIAS attribute scores within the Functional & Economic Role and Regulatory & Policy Environment pillars for each of 422 profiled industries. Scores range from 0–5 — higher indicates greater structural risk exposure. No editorial weighting is applied. Learn more about the GTIAS methodology.

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