percentage point
noun
: one hundredth of a whole : percent
interest rates rose one percentage point from 6.5 percent to 7.5 percent
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Some analysts expect to see another negative number for 2024, albeit a smaller one given that the central bank was able to lower rates by a percentage point last year amid easing inflation pressures.
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Michael S. Derby, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2025
On an annual basis, that would put headline inflation at 2.9% and the core reading at 3.2%, both 0.1 percentage point lower than in January.
—Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 12 Mar. 2025
Families are looking to alternative models: Homeschooling, while past its pandemic peak, accounts for 4% of the school-age population, up a percentage point since 2016.
—Jacob Turcotte, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Mar. 2025
That’s dwarfed by the 0.2 percentage point hit to the unemployment rate that Wolfe Research projects from the immigration crackdown.
—Matt Egan and Alicia Wallace, CNN, 25 Feb. 2025
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Michael S. Derby, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2025
On an annual basis, that would put headline inflation at 2.9% and the core reading at 3.2%, both 0.1 percentage point lower than in January.
—Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 12 Mar. 2025
Families are looking to alternative models: Homeschooling, while past its pandemic peak, accounts for 4% of the school-age population, up a percentage point since 2016.
—Jacob Turcotte, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Mar. 2025
That’s dwarfed by the 0.2 percentage point hit to the unemployment rate that Wolfe Research projects from the immigration crackdown.
—Matt Egan and Alicia Wallace, CNN, 25 Feb. 2025
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“Percentage point.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/percentage%20point. Accessed 21 Mar. 2025.
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