per capita

American  

[per kap-i-tuh] / pər ˈkæp ɪ tə /

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.

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per capita British  

/ pə ˈkæpɪtə /

adjective

1. of or for each person

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per capita Cultural  

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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Etymology

Origin of per capita

1675–85; < Latin: literally, by heads

Example Sentences

Greenland has more than three times as many hospital beds per capita as Louisiana, with 14 beds per 1,000 inhabitants, according to the World Bank.

From The Wall Street Journal

By the early 1960s, its per capita economic output was higher than Japan’s.

From The Wall Street Journal

So that’s why the word “malaise” prompted this, not a rebuttal, but let’s not only think in terms of GDP growth, GDP per capita, market capitalization.

From The Wall Street Journal

To describe real per capita gross domestic product growth in the EU as strong since 2009 would be generous and far from accurate; it has hardly grown.

From The Wall Street Journal

The rate of losses was smallest in major cities, with Moscow having the least deaths per capita - five people for every 10,000 males, or 0.05%.

From BBC