capita
Heads, in Latin
Capita appears almost exclusively in the phrase per capita, meaning for each person or per head.
It comes from Latin *caput* (head), the same root as capital and captain.
Statistics often use per capita to express rates across populations: per capita income, per capita consumption, GDP per capita.
Permanent occupants of place
- residentsPeople living somewhere
- citizensMembers of a nation
- headcountTotal of individuals present
- censusOfficial population count
demographic · urban · rural · density · distribution · growth · decline · migration
Regular monetary receipts
- birthrateNewborns per capita measure
- mortalityState of eventual death
- fertilityCapacity for reproduction
- censusOfficial population count
density · productivity · consumption · expenditure · poverty · inequality · debt · emissions
inhabitants
Permanent occupants of place
census · demographic · urban · rural · density · distribution · growth · decline · migration · settlement
income
Regular monetary receipts
- birthrateNewborns per capita measure
- mortalityState of eventual death
- fertilityCapacity for reproduction
census · density · productivity · consumption · expenditure · poverty · inequality · debt · emissions
individual
One separate human being
inhabitant · voter · taxpayer · consumer · worker · national · subject · constituent · member · soul
- demographicspopulation density, population growth, age distribution, population, gender ratio
- capital lettersLarger alphabet forms
- fashion capitalCity known for couture
- state capitalAdministrative center of a state
- capital cityPrimary governmental center
- capital punishmentExecution by legal authority
- venture capitalistsStartup equity investors
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