Placings of the ESC host countries

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It is always said that a host gets points and better placing. Is that true? Here's the answer:

Here are all the placings of the countries which have hosted the show (beginning from the year 1957:

Placings of the hosting countries

PositionCountryAmount of the hostingsAverage placings of the hosting yearsAverage of all placings
1Spain119,5
2Israel118,9
3United Kingdom73,294,5
4France33,336,2
5Germany24,59,2
6Luxembourg469,2
7Italy267,7
8Ireland66,76,0
9Norway2711,8
10Yugoslavia1710,5
11Switzerland278,4
12Netherlands47,59,7
13Denmark199,8
14Belgium11111,8
15Sweden3118,5
16Austria11411,7
  AVERAGES6,588,96

So it is true that the hosts get better placings!

So Spain and Israel have always won when they have hosted the show.
Here is the list of the countries which are "good" hosts (at least the jurors have rewarded their entry that year!). So here is the list of the countries who's average of the placings is better when they have hosted the ESC than normally.

"Good" host

Spain
Israel
UK
France
Germany
Luxembourg
Italy
Norway
Yugoslavia
Switzerland
The Netherlands
Denmark
and
Belgium

"Bad host"

Austria
Ireland!
and
Sweden

The worst placing of the host was in 1992 in Malmö, Sweden when Christer Björkman and Imorgon är en annan dag game the 22th! = no extra points to the host!

Or if we are correct: the Dutch entry in 1958 game last (9th) in Hilversum, The Netherlands. The entry was titled Heel de wereld and it was performed by Corrie Brokken.

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