97% of the French population belonged to the third estate.
Zero. The Clergy were the FIRST Estate.
2% The first estate took up 1%, and the third estate took up 97%
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 or 97 per cent of the population - the common people.
It was unfair for each estate to have one vote because the first and second estate would always out-vote the third estate, seeing they have more common interests. Moreover, the third estate encompassed 97% of the French population yet they only receive one vote in the Estate's General.
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An often cited figure is 96% to 97% of the population.
The Third Estate was comprised of 96% of the French population. Of that, 90% included 22 million peasants, laborers and artisans.
Everyone else excluding the 1st estate and 2nd estate, so the bourgeois made up the third estate. Particularly the rich people.
Zero. The Clergy were the FIRST Estate.
third and second estate
2% The first estate took up 1%, and the third estate took up 97%
The third Estate,they made up approx. 98% of the population :) ~Aelias
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.