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Latin for one is ūnus, so percent -> perun would be logical, those sensible Dutch ...

I like it, but as I do not work in a Dutch-speaking environment, if I were to do this, someone would eventually come along and 'fix' it (assuming I could get it through review in the first place.)

This the right answer! permyriad -> per 1000. percent -> per 100. perunage -> per 1. I now have another way to impress/irritate my peers!

Looked it up, and a 'perunage' is defined as 'a percentage divided by a hundred'.

Which is indeed technically correct, and even an easy way to explain it the first time.

Of course this rather undersells the elegance and simplicity of perunages, but I'll take it.

Not constrained to the interval [0,1], though: The change in the stockmarket was -5 percent or -0.05 perunage today, but +300 percent or +3 perunage over the last xyz years.

So it is synonymous with 'ratio'?