per capita
Biology
(adjective)
per person or individual
Political Science
(adjective)
shared equally among all individuals.
Business
(adjective)
per person
Examples of per capita in the following topics:
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GDP per capita
- Gross domestic product (GDP) per capita is the mean income of people in an economic unit.
- Gross domestic product (GDP) per capita is also known as income per person.
- GDP per capita accounts for population size.
- Per capita income is often used to measure a country's standard of living.
- Define GDP per capita and assess its usefulness as a metric.
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Personal Income
- In the United States the most widely cited personal income statistics are the Bureau of Economic Analysis's (BEA) personal income and the Census Bureau's per capita money income.
- Personal income and disposable personal income are provided both as aggregate and as per capita statistics.
- The Census Bureau releases estimates of household money income as medians, percent distributions by income categories, and on a per capita basis.
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Economic measures
- GDP and GDP per capita are widely used indicators of a country's wealth.
- The map below shows GDP per capita of countries around the world:
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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,
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Growth in the United States
- To determine economic growth, the GDP is compared to the population, also know as the per capita income.
- When the per capita income increases it is called intensive growth .
- The per capita income was limited.
- This graph shows the GDP per capita in the United States from 1929 to 2010.
- The GDP per capita is the ratio of the GDP to the population.
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Different Health Care Systems Around the World
- Two good examples are provided in the media relative to the overall capital costs and the subsequent returns on these costs, on being costs to hospital beds per capita and the other costs to physicians per capita .
- Germany has consistently demonstrated reductions in cost of health care per capita relative to GDP growth.
- Healthcare spending per capita is on the left y-axis and life expectancy is on the right.
- This graph demonstrates the apparent correlation between beds (per 1000 people) and the costs involved in healthcare overall.
- This demonstrates that, on a per capita basis, the U.S. is spending a great deal without capturing much in return relative to available space for patients.
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Least Industrialized Countries
- HDI considers a country's per capita gross domestic product (GDP), per capita income, rate of literacy, life expectancy, basic infrastructure, and other factors affecting standard of living to determine how developed a country is.
- Low income (a three-year average gross national income of less that $905 USD per capita)
- This map shows countries' gross domestic products (GDP) per capita.
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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.
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Industrialized Countries
- Most commonly, the criteria used to evaluate a country's level of development is its gross domestic product (GDP) per capita.
- Factors used to measure a country's development can include: per capita income, level of industrialization, extent of infrastructure, life expectancy, literacy rate, and general standard of living.
- Developed countries, which include such nations as the United States, France, and Japan, have higher GDPs, per-capita incomes, levels of industrialization, breadth of infrastructure, and general standards of living than less developed nations.
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Perseus Gets his Outfit
- Diú per ácra volábat; tandem tamen ad eum locum vénit ubi Medúsa cum céterís Gorgonibus habitábat.
- Gorgonés autem mónstra erant specié horribilí; capita enim eárum anguibus omnínó contécta erant.