Hmm....
But it didn’t tell us that before the coup we ranked 18th on the index. Here’s the rundown of the rankings (year followed by rank): 2006 – 20; 2007 – 18; 2008 – 15; 2009 – 13; 2010 – 12; 2011 – 19; 2012 – 17; 2013 – 18; 2014 – 18 (coup in May), 2015 – 26; 2016 – 49; 2017 – 46; 2018 – 26.
Note that in 2014 we ranked 18th, then came the coup by “salivating patriots” and we dropped to 26th, then nose-dived to 46th before crawled back to 26th again.
To make my point clear, during 2006 to 2014 before the coup, our average rankings was 16.7; after the coup it was 36.8.
Somsak Pola
Samut Prakarn