per capita

By the head

Per capita means per person, used when dividing a total among a population: per capita income, per capita consumption, the highest per capita rate of gun ownership.

The phrase comes from Latin and appears almost exclusively in statistical contexts.

It functions as both adjective and adverb: Per capita spending rose or spending per capita.

individual

person

Human individual

individual · head · member · consumer · taxpayer · voter · household · national · apiece · each

measurement

GDP

National output abbreviation

  • PPPPublic-private cooperation agreement
  • rateMeasured speed or charge
  • ratioComparative numerical relation

index · average · mean · median · benchmark · indicator · metric · statistic · ranking · comparison

economics

income

Regular monetary receipts

productivity · output · growth · spending · earnings · revenue · debt · tax · investment · savings

demographics

population

All inhabitants combined

residents · citizens · households · density · demography · urbanization · nation · country · region · community

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Opposites
unit of measurement

per capitaaggregate

Combined sum total

total · gross · cumulative · overall · combined

aggregation level

per capitaabsolute

Total, without qualification

sum total · in toto · lump sum · wholesale · bulk

granularity of analysis

per capitain total

Considering the complete sum

as a whole · collectively · wholesale · undivided · holistic

Family

capital, capitalism, capitalist, capitalize, capitals, capitalization, capitalists, decapitate, capitalized

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