Nit picking, but "falling" from 1st to 4th could simply be because the others "rose" above.
It's not like you have to be digitally worse to do worse in a ranking.
Other people / countries can just be improving faster.
Some might argue it's a pedantic distinction, but I would argue it's pretty important here.
It's like if over the next 30 years, GDP per capita inflation adjusted increases 50% in the US but 75% in China - would you really say the US "lost"?
Nit picking, but "falling" from 1st to 4th could simply be because the others "rose" above.
It's not like you have to be digitally worse to do worse in a ranking.
Other people / countries can just be improving faster.
Some might argue it's a pedantic distinction, but I would argue it's pretty important here.
It's like if over the next 30 years, GDP per capita inflation adjusted increases 50% in the US but 75% in China - would you really say the US "lost"?