📚 noun • entry_id 27756
percentage point
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punto porcentual
One hundredth of a given value, used to measure the difference between two percentages.
Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a t…
The difference between 20 percent and 30 percent is 10 percentage points, not 10 percent. In fact, an increase from 20 to 30 percent is an increase of 50 percent. Only if, for exam…
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