Name: What Are Percentage Points?
Uploaded: 2022-12-08T13:17:25.716Z
Channel: House of Math
Description: Watch this video to learn what percentage points are, and to understand the difference between change in percentage points and relative change in percentages.

You will often come across the use of percentage points when the media is covering elections. By referring to percentage points, they can describe how a candidate or party has become more or less popular.

Watch this video to learn what percentage points are, and to understand the difference between change in percentage points and relative change in percentages.

A measure of how much a quantity has changed expressed as percentage (%)

A unit we use when we talk about the difference between two percentages (pp)

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Percentage Explanation

Percentage of a Whole

Percentage: Part of a Whole

Relative Percent Change

Percentage Points

What Is a Percentage?

Introduction

Watch this video to learn what percentage points are, and to understand the difference between change in percentage points and relative change in percentages