In America, a one-percentage point increase in the proportion of immigrants in the population made the native-born 0.05% better off.

在美国，移民在人口中所占比例每增加一个百分点，本土出生的人口生活水平就会提高0.05%。

A basis point is 0.01 percentage point.

一个基点等于0.01个百分点。

A 100 basis points is equal to a percentage point.

100基点等同于1个百分点。

But it is now around a quarter of a percentage point below its peak.

但目前，该数字约比高点低四分之一个百分点左右。

That's an increase from the 0.48 percentage point spread on January 4.

这是继1月4日的0.48个百分点之上的进一步扩大。

The benchmark lending rate dropped a full percentage point, to 2.75 percent.

基准借贷利率整整下跌了一个百分点，达到2.75%。

If so, that's good for a 3.3 percentage point advantage on the quality scale.

如果是的话，他的综合素质又可以增加3.3个百分点。

The Bank of England reduced interest rates by half a percentage point, to 0.5%.

英格兰银行削减利率半个百分点，降至0.5%。

Household spending increased 1.6 percent, contributing 0.9 percentage point to GDP.

今日的报告显示家庭支出增加1.6百分点，贡献GDP0.9百分点。

The three-month lending rate in dollars fellmore than a quarter of a percentage point.

3月期的美元借出利率下降幅度超过了0.25个百分点。

Neon, a rare gas in the air, takes only fractional percentage point of the volume.

氖是空气中的稀有气体，只占空气体积的千分之几。

The Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate by half a percentage point, to 4.75%.

美国联邦储备委员会将基准利率降低了半个百分点到4.75%。

Sweden's central bank cut its benchmark interest rate by half a percentage point, to 0.5%.

瑞典中央银行将基准利率下调0.5个百分点，降到0.5%。

That alone is enough, says Ms Boone, to chop around a percentage point off GDP growth in 2012.

博内女士认为，仅此一项，就足以将2012年欧元区GDP增速砍掉一个百分点。

Symbian has been losing a bit here, a percentage point there for years, so that's no surprise.

塞班一退再退，数年失去一个百分点，所以并不惊奇。

Hermes repeated today that full-year operating margin should widen by at least 1 percentage point.

爱玛仕在今天重申其全年营业利润率将至少上升1个百分点。

But it looks as if the regional financing deal will add another percentage point of GDP to the deficit.

但是看起来该地区的财政协议会让西班牙的GDP赤字雪上加霜。

Since 2006, China Mobile's dividend payout ratio has risen by just one percentage point, to 43% of earnings.

自2006年以来，中国移动的股利支付比率只上升了一个百分点，至收益的43%。

It expects its share to stabilise at around 18.5%, only one percentage point below its figure for this year.

预计其份额将稳定在18.5%左右，仅低于今年数字1个百分点。

Their contribution in the first quarter of this year is likely to be just 0.1 percentage point, the bank adds.

摩根士丹利补充表示，今年第一季度，库存的贡献可能仅有0.1个百分点。

For whites, the poverty rate in 2010 was 9.9 percent, a half percentage point increase from the previous year.

对于白人，2010年得贫困率则为9.9%，比上年增加了半个百分点。

Winter storms cut perhaps half a percentage point off growth from January to March, according to some estimates.

按照某些人的估计，从一月到三月，冬季暴风雪可能将增长率消减了半个百分点。

As a result, he had to tack an extra percentage point on a higher new top rate for individual and corporate taxes.

结果他不得不粘度额外的百分点在更高的新最高税率个人和企业税收。

Still, many economists have shaved a percentage point off growth estimates for the year, to between 6% and 7%.

不过，有一些经济学家预测今年的经济增速要减去百分之一，在6%——7%之间。