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per capita

Speech parts

1. per capita - Adjective

2. per capita - Adverb

3. per capita - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

per person

per person; for each person; of each person

Source: WordNet

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per-capita

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Examples

The rural and urban populations does not necessarily drift downward in the process of economic growth: indeed, there is some evidence to suggest that it is stable at best, and tends to widen because per capita productivity in urban pursuits increases more rapidly than in agriculture. Simon Kuznets

Even though the crime rate has dropped in recent years, the United States has more police per capita then any other nation in the world. Michael Parenti

Increase in the wealth per capita fosters democracy; but the latter, at least according to what we have been able to observe up to now, entails great destruction of wealth and even eventually dries up the sources of it. Hence it is its own grave-digger, it destroys what gave it birth. Vilfredo Pareto

Most of the suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, a place not lacking in wealth. But due to rapid population growth, the wealth per capita has fallen by about half in a generation. Keith Henson

In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease. Garrett Hardin

We have one of the highest interest rates in the world, and we owe more money per capita than any other country. All we need is a nail hole in the bottom of the boat and we're sunk. Pauline Hanson

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