per capita
/pɝ ˈkæpɪtə/
per capita adjective: per person.
Adjective
per capita (not comparable)
- Per person.
- Donations to the mosque come from a village considered fairly poor by regional standards, with an average annual income of 300 yuan (about U.S. $100) per household. The 1982 average per capita annual income in Yongning County was substantially higher, 539 yuan according to the Population Census...1998, Dru C. Gladney, “Getting Rich is Not So Glorious: Contrasting Perspectives on Prosperity Among Muslims and Han in China”, in Robert W. Hefner, editor, Market Cultures: Society and Morality in...
- So CNN looked at different rankings, and each study showed that many other countries have higher per capita testing rates.2020 May 12, Holly Yan, “Trump says the US leads the world in testing. But it’s far behind in testing per capita, studies show”, in CNN, archived from the original on 06 Jun 2020
- Synonyms:
- capitated
- Shared equally among all individuals.
Adverb
per capita (not comparable)
- Per person.
- As of April 26, the US ranked 22nd in the number of tests performed per capita, according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).2020 May 12, Holly Yan, “Trump says the US leads the world in testing. But it’s far behind in testing per capita, studies show”, in CNN, archived from the original on 06 Jun 2020
- Equally among all individuals.
per capita meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Kannada
per capita in Hindi
- per person
- प्रति व्यक्ति prati vyakti, फ़ी आदमी fī ādmī
per capita in Tamil
- தலைக்கு, ஒவ்வொருவருக்கு, ஒவ்வொருவர்க்கு, தலைக்கட்டு வீதம், தலைவிகிதம்
per capita in Marathi
- per person
- दरडोई darḍoī
per capita in Kannada
- ಒಂದು ತಲೆಗೆ, ತಲಾ, ಒಬ್ಬನಿಗೆ, ಒಬ್ಬೊಬ್ಬರಿಗೆ, ಒಂದೊಂದಕ್ಕೆ, ಒಂದೊಂದು ತಲೆಗೆ
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- per capita in Gujarati
- માથાદીઠ māthādīṭh
- per capita in Tagalog
- bawat ulo
- per capita in Indonesian
- per kapita
- per capita in Vietnamese
- đầu người
Synonyms of per capita
Origin of per capita
Borrowed from Latin per capita (“per head”).
Questions about per capita
- What does per capita mean?
- Per capita means per person.
- What is per capita in Hindi?
- Per capita in Hindi is प्रति व्यक्ति (prati vyakti), फ़ी आदमी (fī ādmī). See Per capita meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is per capita?
- Per capita can be an adjective or an adverb.
- How do you pronounce per capita?
- Per capita is pronounced /pɝ ˈkæpɪtə/ (US).
Words near per capita in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: per capita (page history and authors); per capita (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); per capita (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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