[5][6] The word promille is the cognate in Dutch, German, Finnish and Swedish, and is sometimes seen as a loanword in English with the same meaning as per mille.
[7][4] The symbol is included in the General Punctuation block of Unicode at U+2030 ‰ PER MILLE SIGN.
[8] Promille is used in the legal limits of blood-alcohol content for driving a road vehicle in some countries: for example: 0.5‰ or 0.8‰.
[10] In India, the premium per mille is the rate expressed as thousandths of the sum assured.
[11] Gradients (in some countries in Europe) may be expressed as mm/m or m/km, and written with the per mille symbol.