Difference between Percentage and Proportion

What is the difference between Percentage and Proportion?

Percentage as a noun is the amount, number or rate of something, regarded as part of a total of 100; a part of a whole. while Proportion as a noun is a quantity of something that is part of the whole amount or number.

Percentage

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The amount, number or rate of something, regarded as part of a total of 100; a part of a whole. A share of the profits. Benefit or advantage.

Proportion

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To set or render in proportion.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: a quantity of something that is part of the whole amount or number.harmonious relation of parts to each other or to the whole.proper or equal share.the relation of one part to another or to the whole with respect to magnitude, quantity, or degree.A statement of equality between two ratios.

We hope you now know whether to use Percentage or Proportion in your sentence.

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