This page is a record of each country’s performance in Eurovision Song Contest semi-finals since the “seeded” two-semi structure was inaugurated in 2008. The ranking is based on the last eleven years of two seeded semi-finals. Countries are ranked firstly by qualification record percentage, and ties broken by average semi-final score. So on each line is the rank after 2018, then rank after 2017, then country, percentage, fraction and then average points.
eg : Australia has qualified in 4 out of 4 semis and has a 100% qualification record. It’s adjusted* average score in semis is 120.38 points.
*NB: due to “double points” being awarded from 2016 onwards we have halved the total scores for those years so the humungeous points don’t skew the averages.
2019 update: Kate’s easy qualification in Tel Aviv saw Australia maintain it’s perfect record (over an admittedly short period). The only other country with a 100% rate Ukraine did not compete. At the other end of the table despite Tamara’s best efforts, North Macdonia fail to climb due to Serhat and Luca qualifying too.
01 01 Australia 100 4/4 120.38
02 02 Ukraine 100 9/9 105.33
03 03 Azerbaijan 91 10/11 98.77
04 05 Sweden 90 9/10 126.46
05 06 Russia 90 9/10 113.80
06 08 Greece 83 10/12 94.63
07 07 Bosnia 83 5/6 82.33
08 10 Norway 82 9/11 96.91
09 04 Romania 82 9/11 88.04
10 12 Denmark 82 9/11 81.68
11 09 Turkey 80 4/5 100.40
12 11 Armenia73 8/11 82.09
13 13 Hungary 73 8/11 65.82
14 15 Serbia 70 7/10 71.19
15 18 Iceland 67 8/12 71.04
16 16 Israel 64 7/11 77.23
17 20 Cyprus 64 7/11 67.77
18 14 Austria 62 5/8 69.69
19 17 Moldova 58 7/12 68.42
20 23 Estonia 58 7/12 64.50
21 19 Lithuania 58 7/12 59.92
22 24 Albania 58 7/12 59.68
23 21 Georgia 55 6/11 55.45
24 28 Malta 50 6/12 64.83
25 29 Netherlands 50 6/12 64.04
26 22 Poland 50 5/10 53.85
27 25 Finland 50 6/12 52.08
28 26 Portugal 44 4/9 67.61
29 35 Czech Republic 43 3/7 57.29
30 27 Belgium 42 5/12 67.08
31 30 Ireland 42 5/12 49.04
32 32 Belarus 42 5/12 47.63
33 33 Slovenia 42 5/12 45.58
34 31 Croatia 40 4/10 48.12
35 34 Bulgaria 33 3/9 68.89
36 38 Switzerland 25 3/12 43.54
37 36 Latvia 25 3/12 41.79
38 39 San Marino 22 2/9 36.00
39 37 Montenegro 20 2/10 34.90
40 40 North Macedonia 17 2/12 44.75
41 41 Slovakia 0 0/4 25.50
42 42 Andorra 0 0/2 15.00