per capita

per capita

See also: percapita and per cápita

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin per capita.

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, Westview Press, →ISBN, LCCN 97-36705, OCLC 37513128, 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).

2. shared equally among all individuals

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 Polish: per capita (pl) Portuguese: per capita (pt) Romanian: pe cap de locuitor Russian: please add this translation if you can Spanish: por cabeza 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
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 Russian: на ду́шу населе́ния (na dúšu naselénija) Tagalog: bawat ulo Tibetan: མི་རེ་རེའི (mi re re'i)

equally among all individuals