Percent
A percent or percentage was a fraction of 100. (TV: Children of Earth: Day Three [+]Loading...["Children of Earth: Day Three (TV story)"], Children of Earth: Day Four [+]Loading...["Children of Earth: Day Four (TV story)"] PROSE: Speech Day [+]Loading...["Speech Day (short story)"]) In relation to 100 or 100 percent it was used to refer to something being absolute, or absolutely true or functional. (TV: Partners in Crime [+]Loading...["Partners in Crime (TV story)"], The Unquiet Dead [+]Loading...["The Unquiet Dead (TV story)"]) It could also be used to express a flow rate or output. (TV: Fury from the Deep [+]Loading...["Fury from the Deep (TV story)"], The Caves of Androzani [+]Loading...["The Caves of Androzani (TV story)"]) Or a purity rate of minerals. (TV: The Robots of Death [+]Loading...["The Robots of Death (TV story)"])
In situations of cases relating to statistics, medical and power the percentage could rise above 100. (TV: Doctor Who and the Silurians [+]Loading...["Doctor Who and the Silurians (TV story)"], Silence in the Library [+]Loading...["Silence in the Library (TV story)"])
In 1892 there was a meteor shower over London, Strax calculated that there was a 34 percent chance it was an alien invasion. (TV: The Great Detective [+]Loading...["The Great Detective (TV story)"])
People over 65 years of age got a 10% discount on certain days in B&Q by 2005. The Ninth Doctor asked an assistant for the discount, but upon being asked for his age, he decided against revealing it. (PROSE: Have You Seen This Man?)
In September 2009, the 456 came to Earth and demanded ten percent of the children of humanity. (TV: Children of Earth: Day Three) This was expressed in relation to the children in the United States as 2340000, whilst in France this number was expressed as 448000. (TV: Children of Earth: Day Three [+]Loading...["Children of Earth: Day Three (TV story)"])
Astronomical[[edit] | [edit source]]
Atmospheric make up was often expressed as percentages of different gasses. (TV: Snakedance [+]Loading...["Snakedance (TV story)"])
Manussa's was ninety percent Earth-normal. (TV: Snakedance [+]Loading...["Snakedance (TV story)"])
According to the Fifth Doctor, the Earth's Sun was made up of seventy-four percent hydrogen and twenty-four percent helium. (AUDIO: Feast of Fear)
One of the four planets in the Quadrille had a planet used for Dalek experiments. It has a surface which was 80 percent oceans. (PROSE: The Dalek Factor [+]Loading...["The Dalek Factor (novel)"])
Audio[[edit] | [edit source]]
Audio sound could be altered by increasing or decreasing the speed of an audio file by percentages. (AUDIO: Whispers of Terror [+]Loading...["Whispers of Terror (audio story)"])
Education[[edit] | [edit source]]
Some qualifications and results of academic testings were represented by a percentage. The Doctor graduated from the academy on Gallifrey with 51 percent on his second attempt. (TV: The Ribos Operation [+]Loading...["The Ribos Operation (TV story)"])
Efficacy[[edit] | [edit source]]
In the 1970s Zoe Heriot was able to help target and destroy 90 percent if the Cybermen's ships near the moon. (TV: The Invasion [+]Loading...["The Invasion (TV story)"])
The Master assured Lucy Saxon that the sonic wave of his Archangel Network was 100% effective at influencing human minds. However, it became apparent that some, such as Vivien Rook, were not convinced, leading the Master to amend his claim to "99, 98...". (PROSE: Speech Day, TV: The Sound of Drums)
Around 2007 Bubble Shock! was introduced on Earth by the Bane, 2 percent of the human population found its flavour disgusting. (TV: Invasion of the Bane [+]Loading...["Invasion of the Bane (TV story)"])
In 2009 Miss Foster promoted the Adipose pill as "one hundred percent legal, one hundred percent effective." (TV: Partners in Crime)
A Vault Dalek reported that the Crucible was at 90% efficiency as the 2009 21st century Dalek invasion commenced. (TV: The Stolen Earth)
The plan for humans to be placed in suspended animation on Nerva Beacon to survive the solar flares in 6087 had a seven percent stretch factor. (TV: The Ark in Space [+]Loading...["The Ark in Space (TV story)"])
Geographical[[edit] | [edit source]]
According to Santiago Jones in 2010 Japan was 80 percent forests. (TV: Death of the Doctor [+]Loading...["Death of the Doctor (TV story)"])
70 percent of the Earth's surface was oceans. (TV: The Underwater Menace [+]Loading...["The Underwater Menace (TV story)"])
Material[[edit] | [edit source]]
K9 Mark II rated chronodyne as being 74 percent compatible with the Key to Time, stating it was unstable and liable to deteriorate. (TV: The Armageddon Factor [+]Loading...["The Armageddon Factor (TV story)"])
The Cargo ship C982 had a space lock composed of 99 percent duralinium. (TV: Frontier in Space [+]Loading...["Frontier in Space (TV story)"])
The Kroton's dynatrope was constructed from 80 percent tellurium. (TV: The Krotons [+]Loading...["The Krotons (TV story)"])
Medical[[edit] | [edit source]]
Gallifreyan genes constituted only 7% of Alex Campbell's genome. (AUDIO: Relative Dimensions)
Time Lords shared 98 percent of their genes with vampires. (PROSE: Goth Opera [+]Loading...["Goth Opera (novel)"])
Human beings are composed of 60 percent water. (TV: The Waters of Mars [+]Loading...["The Waters of Mars (TV story)"])
Whilst posing as press reporters in 2020, Ryan Sinclair and Yasmin Khan scanned Daniel Barton with a bioscanner that was disguised as an audio recorder. The resulting DNA profile told Yasmin that Barton was "only ninety-three percent human". (TV: Spyfall - Part One)
Virology[[edit] | [edit source]]
Vanessa Winters claimed that the Spanish flu of 1918 killed "something like" five percent of the human race. (TV: Children of Earth: Day Four [+]Loading...["Children of Earth: Day Four (TV story)"])
Personal[[edit] | [edit source]]
Nardole claimed to know "about 10 percent]]" of the Twelfth Doctor's secrets. (TV: The Eaters of the Light [+]Loading...["The Eaters of the Light (TV story)"])
Productive[[edit] | [edit source]]
In an alternate timeline the ruling Daleks on Earth set production figures which were increased by a percentage that was required to be met. (TV: Day of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Day of the Daleks (TV story)"])
In the 1970s Global Chemicals' new process allowed them to produce 25 percent more petrol and diesel from a given quantity of crude oil. (TV: The Green Death [+]Loading...["The Green Death (TV story)"])
Remuneration[[edit] | [edit source]]
In the 1800s Henry Gordon Jago attempted to placate Li H'sen Chang by offering an extra 2 percent on top of their previously agreed upon terms. (TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang [+]Loading...["The Talons of Weng-Chiang (TV story)"])
Sociological[[edit] | [edit source]]
On Varos some votes were based on food rations and percentage by which they were (or were not) cut. (TV: Vengeance on Varos [+]Loading...["Vengeance on Varos (TV story)"])
The Ninth Doctor told Charles Dickens in 1869 that he was "one hundred percent brilliant". (TV: The Unquiet Dead)
After March 2007, Harold Saxon was reported by The Daily Telegraph newspaper as leading polls with 64% during a state of "government paralysis". (TV: Love & Monsters)
In 2011 80 percent of India was Hindu. (TV: Rendition [+]Loading...["Rendition (TV story)"])
Technological[[edit] | [edit source]]
In 1978 in Cornwall when K9 Mark II encountered an Ogri it took more than 12 hours for his circutry regeneration to reach 75 percent regeneration. (TV: The Stones of Blood [+]Loading...["The Stones of Blood (TV story)"])
In the 51st century the SS Madame de Pompadour suffered a failure of 82 percent of its systems due to an ion storm. (TV: The Girl in the Fireplace [+]Loading...["The Girl in the Fireplace (TV story)"])
In attempting to download the entirety of the Library on Kar-Charrat from the wetworks facility there into a test subject the Daleks' chief scientist predicted a 70 percent failure if they did not utilise a Time Lord's neutral pathways to buffer and stabilise the information flow. (AUDIO: The Genocide Machine [+]Loading...["The Genocide Machine (audio story)"])
In the void around The Gateway K9 Mark II's mass detection error rate was 87 percent after being hit by the time winds, K9 admitting to Adric that his accuracy had deteriorated to below zero. (TV: Warriors' Gate [+]Loading...["Warriors' Gate (TV story)"])
Temporal[[edit] | [edit source]]
When Axos was on Earth in the 1970s it only achieved a maximum of 75 percent of the capability to enter a time field, and was not able to achieve time travel. (TV: The Claws of Axos [+]Loading...["The Claws of Axos (TV story)"])
TARDISes[[edit] | [edit source]]
Mass of the TARDIS could be converted into thrust, expressed as a percentage of its internal architecture. (TV: Castrovalva [+]Loading...["Castrovalva (TV story)"], The Doctor's Wife [+]Loading...["The Doctor's Wife (TV story)"])
