Between three and five percent depending on the year.
The Nobles of the Second Estate. it's First estate for a+
The class of nobles was the Second Estate.
97% of the French population belonged to the third estate.
97 percent of the French population - Apex
The Third Estate Of France
The First Estate or Catholic clergy were about two percent of the population. The Nobles or Second Estate made up about one percent of the population. Everyone else was in the Third Estate.
The third estate in pre-Revolutionary France was the commoners. This made up the majority of the French population. The first and second estate were the nobility and the clergy, who basically allowed the king whatever he wanted.
The first estate had 10% of the land in France.
Before the Revolution in France : The Estates-General consisted of three estates :the Clergy (about 100,000 people), the Nobles (about 400, 000 people) and all the others (about 96% of the population) belonged to the Third Estate.
The First Estate was less than 1% of the French population and the Second Estate was between 1-2% of the population, meaning that the total between them was between 2-3%. Roughly 97% of the population was part of the Third Estate.
It consisted of 95 to 97 percent of the French population. (apex) It was the commoners of France, the working men and women. Bankers, Brokers and Barristers.
In revolutionary France, the First Estate owned only 10 percent of the land. The First Estate was the clergy.