Thai and foreign netizens have been left stunned after seeing Thailand ranked at the bottom of a Land of Smiles poll conducted by Gallup Global Emotions 2022. The controversial poll even upset the Thai government who hit back, saying the topic wasn’t even included in the official survey report.

Singaporean media platform, Southeast Asia Stats, posted a “Southeast Asian Country That Treats People With a Smile” poll on its official Facebook page last Sunday, saying Thailand was the bottom country while Indonesia was the globe’s top nation. The poll revealed that Indonesian visitors experienced smiles 90% of the time.

Gallup’s annual Global Emotions Report, a prominent research organization measuring people’s positive and negative experiences worldwide, has revealed its latest survey result of ‘A Southeast Asian Country That Treats People With a smile’. Thailand, often referred to as “The Land of Smiles.”, is ranked 9th.