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What (who) is per capita - definition
INDEPENDENT PROGRESSIVE AUSTRALIAN THINK TANK
per capita
adj. Latin for "by head," meaning to be determined by the number of people. To find the per capita cost, the total number of persons are added up and the bill, tax or benefits are divided equally among those persons.
per capita
[L.] By heads, by polls, according to the number of persons.
per capita
The per capita amount of something is the total amount of it in a country or area divided by the number of people in that country or area.
They have the world's largest per capita income...
ADJ: ADJ n
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Per capita is also an adverb.
Ethiopia has almost the lowest oil consumption per capita in the world...
ADV: n ADV
Wikipedia
Per Capita
Per Capita is an independent public policy think tank in Australia. The organisation was launched on 11 April 2007 at the State Library of Victoria. Its founders were Evan Thornley, Joshua Funder, Anthony Kitchener, Jane-Frances Kelly, Dennis Glover and Emma Dawson. Its founding Executive Director was David Hetherington and founding Policy Director was Michael Cooney.
Examples of use of per capita
1. Per capita Worldwide military spending represented 2.5% of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2005, or $173 per capita.
2. With 1.3 billion people, its per capita GDP is about $1,700; U.S. per capita income in 2004 was about $40,100.
3. Per capita income: The target for per capita income in the 8th Plan was calculated at $4,300.
4. China‘s 1.3 billion residents have a per capita GDP of about $2,500 while Germany‘s 82 million inhabitants have a per capita GDP of $40,400.
5. His state has one of nation‘s highest per capita rates of youth sex offenders in treatment and one of the highest rates of treatment programs per capita.