99 percent
Nearly the whole
Ninety-nine percent means nearly all of something, with only a tiny fraction excluded.
The phrase emphasizes overwhelming majority or near-certainty: I'm 99 percent sure she's lying.
It can also highlight how close something came to completion: The project is 99 percent finished.
The remaining one percent often receives outsized attention—hence the one percent for the ultra-wealthy.
- wealth gapEconomic inequality measure
- Occupy Wall Street2011 anti-inequality protest movement
- almost allMost but not quite
- income disparityUnequal earnings distribution
- wealth distributionHow prosperity is shared
fraction · proportion · grassroots activism · income inequality · ubiquity · redistribution · class struggle · majority · almost there · financial reform · systemic inequality · economic equity · social justice · prevalence · ratio · completeness · probability · universality