per capita

(adjective)

per person or individual

Related Terms

Examples of per capita in the following topics:

  • Exponential Population Growth

    • The birth rate is usually expressed on a per capita (for each individual) basis.
    • Thus, B (birth rate) = bN (the per capita birth rate "b" multiplied by the number of individuals "N") and D (death rate) = dN (the per capita death rate "d" multiplied by the number of individuals "N").

  • Concept of Osmolality and Milliequivalent

    • Solution concentration is expressed by a solution's molality, while electrolyte concentration is expressed in terms of milliequivalents per liter.
    • A solution's molarity is the number of moles of solute per liter of solution.
    • On the other hand, a solution's molality is the number of moles of solute per kilogram of solvent.
    • Molarity and molality represent solution concentration, but electrolyte concentrations are usually expressed in terms of milliequivalents per liter (mEq/L).
    • Another unit of electrolyte concentration is the milliosmole (mOsm), which is the number of milliequivalents of solute per kilogram of solvent.

  • Sound

    • At sea level and a temperature of 20º C (68º F), sound waves travel in the air at about 343 meters per second.
    • Frequency is the number of waves per unit of time; in sound, it is heard as pitch.
    • Frequency is measured in cycles per second.
    • For sound, the most-commonly used unit is hertz (Hz), or cycles per second.

  • Subphyla of Arthropoda

    • The thorax bears three pairs of legs (one pair per segment) and two pairs of wings, with one pair each on the second and third thoracic segments.
    • These animals bear one pair of legs per segment, mandibles as mouthparts, and are somewhat dorsoventrally flattened.
    • Millipedes bear two pairs of legs per diplosegment, a feature that results from embryonic fusion of adjacent pairs of body segments, are usually rounder in cross-section, and are herbivores or detritivores.
    • They bear one pair of legs per segment and can inject venom.

  • Immunodeficiency

    • During primary infection, the level of HIV may reach several million virus particles per milliliter of blood.
    • During primary infection, the level of HIV may reach several million virus particles per milliliter of blood.

  • Blood Pressure

    • It is calculated by multiplying the number of heart contractions that occur per minute (heart rate) times the stroke volume (the volume of blood pumped into the aorta per contraction of the left ventricle).

  • Abiotic Factors Influencing Plant Growth

    • It is calculated as the total amount of carbon fixed per year minus the amount that is oxidized during cellular respiration.
    • In terrestrial environments, net primary productivity is estimated by measuring the aboveground biomass per unit area, which is the total mass of living plants, excluding roots.

  • Overcoming Density-Dependent Regulation

    • The advent of modern medicine is very closely tied to childhood mortality, as well as the number of children per mother (Fertility Rate).
    • Measles cases reported in the United States, represented as thousands of cases per year, declined sharply after the measles vaccine was introduced, in 1964.

  • DNA Packaging

    • Supercoiling means that DNA is either under-wound (less than one turn of the helix per 10 base pairs) or over-wound (more than 1 turn per 10 base pairs) from its normal relaxed state.

  • Past and Present Effects of Climate Change

    • Similarly, the mass of the ice sheets in Greenland and the Antarctic is decreasing: Greenland lost 150–250 km3 of ice per year between 2002 and 2006.
    • On average, the sea is rising at a rate of 1.8 mm per year.
    • However, between 1993 and 2010, the rate of sea-level increase ranged between 2.9 and 3.4 mm per year.