Per Capita Definition

pər kăpĭ-tə
adjective
For each person.
Webster's New World
Per unit of population; per person.
In that year, Americans earned $15,304 per capita. Among the states, Connecticut has a high per capita income.
American Heritage
Equally to each individual.
American Heritage
By or through the head. According to the head count, or number of individuals; that is, divided equally among everyone involved.
Webster's New World Law
adverb

Per person.

Wiktionary
Equally among all individuals.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
  • of each person
  • for each person

Origin of Per Capita

  • Medieval Latin by heads Latin per per Latin capita accusative pl. of caput head

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin

    From Wiktionary

Per Capita Sentence Examples

  • The debt per capita is as high as the cost of current administration relatively to other cities.

  • On the 18th of January 1906 the currency in circulation amounted to $502,420,485, which is more than $95 per capita.

  • The state apportionment to the districts was $5 per capita of school population in 1906-07, and was $6 in 1907-08.

  • The following table gives the total and the per capita cost of each enumeration.

  • For the sake of comparison it may be stated that the per capita cost of the English census of 1901 was 2.24 cents, or little more than one-tenth that of the American census.

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