percentage point
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unit for the arithmetic difference of two percentages
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Encyclopedic overview
A percentage point or percent point is the description for the arithmetic difference between two percentages. For example, moving up from 40 percent to 44 percent is an increase of 4 percentage points (although it is a 10-percent increase in the quantity being measured, if the total amount remains the same). In written text, the unit (the percentage point) is usually either written out, or abbreviated as pp, p.p., or %pt. to avoid confusion with percentage increase or decrease in the actual quantity. After the first occurrence, some writers abbreviate by using just "point" or "points".
Differences between percentages and percentage points
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “percentage point” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.