per capita

Examples of per capita in the following topics:

• Universal Coverage

  • This image depicts the total healthcare services expenditure per capita, in U.S. dollars PPP-adjusted, for the nations of Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States with the years 1995, 2000, 2005, and 2007 compared.

• The Golden Age: 1860–1932

  • By the beginning of the 20th century, per capita income and industrial production in the United States led the world, with per capita incomes double that of Germany or France, and 50% higher than Britain.

• Medicaid and Medicare

  • The matching rate provided to states is determined using a federal matching formula (called Federal Medical Assistance Percentages), which generates payment rates that vary from state to state, depending on each state's respective per capita income.

• Energy Policy

  • Incoming solar radiation to the Earth equals 341 watts per square meter (Trenberth et al., 2009).
  • Some of the solar radiation is reflected back from the Earth by clouds, the atmosphere, and the Earth's surface (102 watts per square meter).
  • About half of the solar radiation is absorbed by the Earth's surface (161 watts per square meter).
  • Solar radiation is converted to heat energy, causing the emission of longwave (infrared) radiation back to the atmosphere (396 watts per square meter).
  • Outgoing infrared radiation from the Earth equals 239 watts per square meter.

• Congressional Districts

  • The quantity (apportionment) and boundaries (redistricting) of districts are determined after each census, although in some cases states have changed the boundaries more than once per census.
  • As of the 2000 census, the average population per district is 646,946 people.

• Clarifying Ambiguous Words

  • It exists if in a place where the ratio of the races is 85 per cent white to 15 per cent black (We are assuming here an extremely simplified situation, which will rarely or ever actually be the case, in which all people are either black or white. ) but in some smaller institution (a school, factory, office, club, etc) in that place the percentages of blacks and whites are very different from those in the general population, say white 95 per cent, black 5 per cent.

• Iraq

  • The "One weekend a month, two weeks a year" slogan has lost most of its relevance since the Iraq War, when nearly 28% of total US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan at the end of 2007 consisted of mobilized personnel of the National Guard and other Reserve components. [35] In July 2012, the Army's top general stated his intention to increase the annual drill requirement from two weeks per year to up to seven weeks per year.

• Law, Pseudolaws, and By-Laws

  • Rich people shall pay a 70 per cent income tax, other people shall pay 24 per cent.
  • By-laws applying to public associations include the Hickenlooper Amendment and the federal enactment producing the 65 (originally 55) miles per hour national speed limit.

• Welfare Reform

  • Before the Welfare Reform Act of 1996, welfare assistance was "once considered an open-ended right," but welfare reform converted it "into a finite program built to provide short-term cash assistance and steer people quickly into jobs. " Prior to reform, states were given "limitless" money by the federal government, increasing per family on welfare, under the 60-year-old Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program.
  • After reforms, which President Clinton said would "end welfare as we know it," amounts from the federal government were given out in a flat rate per state based on population.

• Constitutional Issues and Compromises

  • Under the Articles of Confederation, each state had equal representation in Congress—one vote per state.
  • Under the New Jersey Plan, the unicameral legislature with one vote per state was inherited from the Articles of Confederation.