"Fifty percent of them do not believe."
Translation:Il cinquanta per cento di loro non crede.
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Percento, or per cento is an invariable adverb or noun word/expression, with the same meaning: percent (per hundred).
The noun is treated as masculine singular, regardless of the actual number involved, which is why the definite article matches and, less intuitively, why the act of believing (or not) - for that 50% of the people - is also conjugated as singular (crede instead of credono).
From the Encyclopedia Treccani:
"pér cènto (o percènto) locuz. usata come avv. e come s. m. invar. "
"pér cènto (or percènto) expression used as adverb and as singular masculine [noun] invariable."
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Can anyone confirm the following is correct?
Percento = per cent (as in €0.02) Per Cento = percent (as in %)