The order of keywords in file info

Hello,

I have a set of keywords I am using that I have numbered sequentially for different character values to encode metadata to each image, for example:

The issue is, when I look in file info, the keywords are ordered in the (at times random/ out of sequence) order they were clicked/assigned by me, but not sorted into the number order (0 to 53).

This is problematic, because I am using the ExifTool to export these metadata in excel and they are all jumbled (the goal is that they would retain the numerical order presented in the keywords list, and neatly line up). Any ideas? Sorting in Excel is a headache for the number of files and keywords, plus they are not sorting correctly since they are text values. Thanks!