Eurovision | Top 45 Countries of the Last 10 Contests (2015-2025)

Welcome back to the updated version of this video, which takes a look at the most successful countries of the past 10 Eurovision Song Contests based on their results!

All the songs shown in the video achieved the most average results of each country. You can also see every country's progress graph across the past 10 years, and how many positions in the ranking each one rose/fell by compared to last year's 2014-2024 ranking.

HOW THE AVERAGES ARE CALCULATED
In this system, both the position achieved and the amount of participants each year are considered so every result is proportional and relative- how successful a country placed in one year is calculated by the percentage of other participants that placed below them, i.e. a win is 100%, a last place is 0%, and all the rest fill in the places fractionally between. The average of all of these numbers is then taken for each country, and they are ordered in the ranking you see in this video! This allows each year to have equal weight and doesn't discriminate against the newer countries for joining in years with more participants.

The Netherlands' placing in 2024 is classed as 26th out of 37 due to them still being deemed an official participant- this puts them above all the non qualifiers due to their semi final score but below the 25 finalists thanks to being disqualified before it took place.

AUTOMATIC QUALIFIERS
The automatic qualifiers (host entries/the big 5) get their results treated in 2 different ways:
If they placed above countries that qualified to the final, the number of participants is the overall amount that year, meaning their percentage increases.
If they only placed above other automatic qualifiers (or came last) the number of participants is only the amount of finalists, meaning coming last in the final is the same as dead last overall.

This is why some low big 5 final placings may appear not that bad, as a qualifying country did worse than them, so their placing counts as out of the full contest.

NON QUALIFIERS
This video is only about placings for the average, but points do come into deciding the position order of non qualifiers from different semi finals. You can find a full explanation of this system here:    • TOP 50 Highest Scoring Eurovision Entries ...  

In summary: the average amount of points received is now set at 50%, meaning all point values below the average are now divided by that figure (58*voters/participants) instead of the maximum possible (12*(voters-1)) to determine their order. The reasoning being that although 1 point takes up a greater proportion of the total with less voters, there are also less zeroes these voters give out in the points- so the impressiveness and the lack of impressiveness cancel out. This results in NQ rankings that are mostly more similar to ordering by just the points themselves rather than the percentage, but 2022 for example (where semi 1 had 2 less voters and 1 less participant than semi 2) produces the most notable changes.

This has a very small impact on the overall averages since it just switches around a few low placing countries every year.

If you're new to Eurovision and wondering why 2020 is missing, the songs were released but the event got cancelled due to the pandemic, meaning there are no results for that year.

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