English-Dutch translations for percentage point

• procentpunt
  Daarmee zou de werkloosheid in 2007 moeten dalen met bijna één procentpunt. This would then reduce unemployment by almost one percentage point in 2007.
  Als de rente verlaagd wordt met een half procentpunt, zullen de markten opnieuw teleurgesteld reageren. In my opinion, the European Central Bank should cut the interest rate tomorrow by one percentage point.
  De staatsinvesteringen zijn in de Europese Unie gedaald tot één mager procentpunt van het bruto nationaal product. Public investments have fallen in the European Union to around one measly percentage point of GDP.

Definition of percentage point

• One hundredth of a given value, used to measure the difference of two percentages

Examples

• 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 example, 20 percent of buyers choose a certain companys products in one year and 22 percent do so the next year, can one speak of an increase of 10 percent

Related words

• percentage rate