per capita

(adjective)

per person

Related Terms

Examples of per capita in the following topics:

  • The economic environment

    • They have high literacy, modem technology, and higher per capita incomes.
    • Many Latin American nations fit into this category, and they exhibit rising levels of education, technology, and per capita incomes,

  • Gross Domestic Product

    • GDP per capita is often considered an indicator of a country's standard of living.
    • Under economic theory, GDP per capita exactly equals the gross domestic income (GDI) per capita.
    • GDP per capita 2011 for the world economy; with the darkest reds being the highest, and the ligher yellows to white being the lowest.

  • Major Historical Developments in the Global Economy

    • As a result, the United States per capita GDP levels in 2010 were equivalent to nearly 500% of those in 1929.
    • This illustrates the rapid economic success of the US; from $9,000 per capita in 1929, to almost $50,000 per capita in 2010.

  • Balance of Payments

    • Then the net change per year in the central bank's foreign exchange reserves is sometimes called the balance of payments surplus or deficit.

  • Benefits of Globalization

    • One pro-globalization argument involves how, based on per capita GDP growth rates, developing countries become wealthier.

  • Growth Economics

    • A single currency may be quoted to compare per capita economic growth among several countries.

  • Negative and positive effects of globalization for developing country business

    • The spectacular growth in East Asia, which increased GDP per capita by eightfold and raised millions of people out of poverty, was based largely on globalization—export-led growth and closing the technology gap with industrialized countries (Stiglitz, 2003).

  • Productivity Gains from Hardware

    • Increases in productivity are responsible for increases in per capita living standards.

  • Performance per Share

    • Earnings Per Share (EPS) is the amount of earnings per each outstanding share of a company's stock.
    • Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio relates market price to earnings per share.
    • P/E Ratio = Market Price Per Share / Annual Earnings Per Share .
    • The dividend yield or the dividend-price ratio of a share is the company's total annual dividend payments divided by its market capitalization—or the dividend per share, divided by the price per share.
    • The second method, using per-share values, is to divide the company's current share price by the book value per share, which is its book value divided by the number of outstanding shares (Share Price / Book Value Per Share).

  • Definition and statistics

    • The Kaufmann Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, a leading institute of entrepreneurial research in the USA, for example, defines high-growth firms as being those with over 30 per cent growth in sales or over 20 per cent growth in the number of employees for each of the three preceding years.
    • Other US researchers (Siegel/MacMillan 1993) define strong growth as over 25 per cent growth per annum over a three-year period.
    • Even in the USA, only 5 per cent of firms each year are estimated to take on extra staff (cf.
    • In the USA, for example, it is estimated that only 12-15 per cent of all businesses are responsible for 100 per cent of the employment growth in the US economy (cf.