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per capita

noun as in per person

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We see the effects of a state that spends more money per capita on prisons than it does on education.

The highest per capita wine consumption in the world is in the Vatican.

Higher per capita income, longer histories of democratic stability, legal status, and religion.

Then he faced a $3.7 billion deficit, the largest in state history, and the largest per capita in the nation.

Far less appreciated, Houston, rather than being a southern city of duller wits, actually ranks second in engineers per capita.

When a Klan is chartered, a per capita tax of $1.85 for each member is required to be sent to the Imperial Palace.

The per capita wages of Japanese laborers here are, of course, amazingly low.

England cut her sugar allowance per capita from about seven and a half pounds a month to two, and France from nearly four to one.

The food for the colony at Four Oaks, usually bought at wholesale, doesn't cost more than $5 a month per capita.

The average consumption of wool at that time averaged not more than three pounds per capita.

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On this page you'll find 4 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to per capita, such as: per head, per unit of population, and proportionately.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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