per capita

See also: percapita and per cápita

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin per capita (“per head”).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

per capita (not comparable)

1. Per person.
   • 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 the New Asian Capitalisms‎^[1], Westview Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 110:

     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 Office (1987:206).

   • 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^[2]:

     So CNN looked at different rankings, and each study showed that many other countries have higher per capita testing rates.

2. Shared equally among all individuals.

Related terms

• capital
• capitation

Translations

per person

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 人均的 (zh) (rénjūn de)

• Danish: per indbygger
• Dutch: per hoofd (nl)
• Finnish: henkilöä kohti, asukasta kohti
• French: par personne
• German: Pro-Kopf- (compound)
• Gujarati: માથાદીઠ (māthādīṭh)
• Hindi: प्रति व्यक्ति (prati vyakti), फ़ी आदमी (fī ādmī)
• Indonesian: per kapita (id)
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 일인당 (irindang)
• Latin: per capita
• Marathi: दरडोई (darḍoī)
• Polish: per capita (pl)
• Portuguese: per capita (pt)
• Romanian: pe cap de locuitor
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: por cabeza, percápita
• Tagalog: bawat ulo
• Tibetan: མི་རེ་རེའི (mi re re'i)
• Vietnamese: đầu người

shared equally among all individuals

• French: par habitant

Adverb

per capita (not comparable)

1. Per person.
   • 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^[3]:

     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).

2. Equally among all individuals.

Translations

per person

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 人均 (zh) (rénjūn)

• Dutch: per hoofd (nl)
• Esperanto: pokapa
• French: par habitant
• German: pro Kopf (de)
• Italian: a testa, pro capite (it)
• Japanese: 一人当たり (ひとりあたり, hitori-atari)
• Portuguese: per capita (pt)
• Romanian: pe cap de locuitor, per cap de locuitor, per capita, pe capita
• Russian: на ду́шу населе́ния (na dúšu naselénija)
• Tagalog: bawat ulo
• Tibetan: མི་རེ་རེའི (mi re re'i)
• Turkish: adam başına (tr), adam başı (tr), kişi başına (tr)

equally among all individuals