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per capita

/per -kap-i-tuh/US // pər ˈkæp ɪ tə //

人均,人均水平,按人头计算,人均收入

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Definitions

  1. 1
    • : by or for each individual person: income per capita.
    • : 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.

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Examples

  • The per capita income in Mississippi, for example, was $216 in 1940, compared with $676 in Michigan.

  • Marshall Burke projects that over the next 80 years, per capita GDP in the United States will drop by 36% compared to what it would be in a nonwarming world, even as per capita GDP in Russia will quadruple.

  • At the heart of that is a demand that the state resets its contract with Chileans to focus not just on creating wealth — Chile has the highest per capita income in South America — but making sure it is distributed more equally.

  • There’s no connection between the divorce rate in Maine and per capita consumption of margarine, for example, even if those track with one another over time.

  • More than 26,000 people had died, about 10,000 of them in New York City, where the per capita death rate had surpassed Italy’s.

  • Added to drinking water at concentrations of around one part per million, fluoride ions stick to dental plaque.

  • During an emergency that ratio could be allowed to drop to 8.5 people per orbit.

  • Well over a thousand holes in, I average less than four strokes per hole.

  • At least one child in CAR has been killed or gravely injured per day, and 10,000 have been recruited into militant groups.

  • Bitcoin began 2013 with a roaring price of $770 per unit, and businesses right and left were converting to the ethereal product.

  • I doubt that thirty persons per day are carried into or brought out of it by all public conveyances whatever.

  • The Act permits member banks to accept an amount of bills not exceeding 50 per cent.

  • At this period it brought enormous prices, the finest selling at from fifteen to eighteen shillings per pound.

  • In 1205 wheat was worth 12 pence per bushel, which was cheap, as there had been some years of famine previous thereto.

  • We did not talk much about the past at dinner, except—ah me, how bitterly we regretted our 10 per cent.