What percentage is in 95 decibel hearing loss?

Hearing loss is expressed in decibels; not in percent.

There are several reasons for this:

1. Decibels are measured on a logarithmic scale and percent is linear.
2. Hearing loss is open-ended; that is, if 100% is total hearing loss, what is 50%? I may have a dynamic range (softest sound level detectable to loudest) that is different from yours…meaning my 50% (in db) is different than yours.
3. Ears attenuate (turn the volume down slowly) very loud sound volumes in an attempt to minimize hearing damage. This can be know as temporary hearing loss… like when a person leaves a rock concert and cannot hear low volume sound very well for a couple hours.
4. A sound that causes hearing loss is usually expressed in db and time. For example:
1. The sound level at a rock concert where Joe was standing was 120db. After 3 hours he suffered permanent hearing loss.
2. Joe stood right next to a machine gun at 190db for 3 seconds and suffered the same loss.
3. If Joe happened to be a the volcano Krakatoa in 1883 when it produced a sound of about 310db…considered the loudest sound ever, on Earth. Anyone within 10 miles would’ve been instantly deaf. The atomic bombs dropped on Japan in WWII were estimated to be 248db.
5. I hope this helps explain why percent and DB cannot be equated in hearing loss.