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per capita

adverb

  1. per person
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /pɝ ˈkæpɪtə/

adj

Etymology: Borrowed from Latin per capita (“per head”).

  1. Per person.

    Donations to the mosque come from a village considered fairly poor by regional standards, with an average annual income of 300 yuan (about U.S. $100) per household. The 1982 average per capita annual income in Yongning County was substantially higher, 539 yuan according to the Population Census Office (1987:206).

    So CNN looked at different rankings, and each study showed that many other countries have higher per capita testing rates.

  2. Shared equally among all individuals.

adv

Etymology: Borrowed from Latin per capita (“per head”).

  1. Per person.

    As of April 26, the US ranked 22nd in the number of tests performed per capita, according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

  2. Equally among all individuals.