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How to read `１２．５％`? I've place it on Google Translate and heard じゅうに **てん**
パーセント, is it correct?

> ６５歳を超えるアメリカ人は全人口の **１２．５％** を構成している。
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How to read percentage?
The correct pronunciation is :  
じゅう に てん ご パーセント
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It is **not** correct. Its pronunciation is Jū ni-ten **go** pāsento. (じゅう に
てん ご ぱーせんと)
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The ・ here is used as the "." would be used in English: to distinguish the
round and the decimal part. So it is indeed read as 点{てん}.

So you would read the whole thing as [１２]{じゅうに}[・]｛てん｝[５]｛ご｝[％]｛パーセント｝.
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