English Dictionary

percentage point

noun

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

The unemployment rate increased by 2 percentage points.

意味（1）

One hundredth of a given value, used to measure the difference of 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 tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.