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per capita Definition


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per capita
adverb, adj
    1. For each person.
      Example: income per capita
      Example: GDP per capita
Etymology: 20c in this sense; 17c in legal sense ‘divided or shared equally by or among individuals': Latin, literally ‘by heads'.



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