English-Spanish translations for percentage

• porcentaje
  ¿El porcentaje es mayor o menor? Is the percentage higher or lower?
  Ese porcentaje debería ser el 90%, eso en primer lugar. If the percentage is 90%, so be it.
  Aunque sé que es un porcentaje pequeño, se trata de un porcentaje importante. I know this is a small percentage, but it is an important percentage.

Definition of percentage

• The amount, number or rate of something, regarded as part of a total of 100; a part of a whole
• A share of the sales, profits, gross margin or similar
• Benefit or advantage

Examples

• A high percentage of secondary school leavers take a gap year
• She gets a percentage for every vacuum cleaner sold.
• There was no percentage in staying at home.

Related words

• percentaged
• percentage of alcohol
• percentage point
• percentage by volume
• percentage by weight
• percentage rate
• percentage sign
• percentage of silver
• percentage by mass