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 twelve 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 2019, then rank after 2018, 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 Macedonia fail to climb due to Serhat and Luca qualifying too.
2021 update: list now colour coded after the semi draw. Red for semi one, Blue for semi two, White not participating, and Orange of course for our hosts.
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 Armenia 73 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