I used the Mann-Whitney test to compare two population by matlab software. the result is expressed as a percentage. Is that the end result of this test?
To compare two populations is better to use the Student t for independent samples. For the Mann Whitney, it is a nonparametric test, and the result is usually a p-value. A percentage may be understood as a chance, so if the test results 3.5%, then it is a p-value of 0.035, which would be significant.