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per capita

[ per kap-i-tuh ]

adjective

  1. by or for each individual person:

    income per capita.

  2. Law. noting or pertaining to a method of dividing an estate by which all those equally related to the decedent take equal shares individually without regard to the number of lines of descent. Compare per stirpes.


per capita

/ pə ˈkæpɪtə /

adjective

  1. of or for each person


per capita

  1. A Latin phrase literally meaning “by heads,” and translated as “for each person.” It is a common unit for expressing data in statistics . A country's per capita personal income , for example, is the average personal income per person.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of per capita1

1675–85; < Latin: literally, by heads

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Word History and Origins

Origin of per capita1

Latin, literally: according to heads

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Example Sentences

We see the effects of a state that spends more money per capita on prisons than it does on education.

The highest per capita wine consumption in the world is in the Vatican.

Higher per capita income, longer histories of democratic stability, legal status, and religion.

Then he faced a $3.7 billion deficit, the largest in state history, and the largest per capita in the nation.

Far less appreciated, Houston, rather than being a southern city of duller wits, actually ranks second in engineers per capita.

When a Klan is chartered, a per capita tax of $1.85 for each member is required to be sent to the Imperial Palace.

The per capita wages of Japanese laborers here are, of course, amazingly low.

England cut her sugar allowance per capita from about seven and a half pounds a month to two, and France from nearly four to one.

The food for the colony at Four Oaks, usually bought at wholesale, doesn't cost more than $5 a month per capita.

The average consumption of wool at that time averaged not more than three pounds per capita.

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