How to Use per capita in a Sentence

per capita

adverb or adjective
Definition of per capitanext
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  • That amounts to an increase of about a $50 per capita, not a cut.
    — Vance Ginn, National Review, 22 Dec. 2023
  • The country has more saunas per capita than any other in the world.
    — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Despite this, the rate of death per capita from melanoma has remained unchanged over the last 40 years.
    — Enrique Torchia, Fortune Well, 20 Aug. 2023
  • Naperville retained its No. 1 rank as the safest city overall with a crime cost per capita of $156.
    — Suzanne Baker, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2023
  • In terms of residents charged per capita, a few of the closest areas lead.
    — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2023
  • In 2021, the country spent one-third below the EU average in health care costs per capita.
    — Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The District will finish the year with one of the highest per capita homicide rates among major U.S. cities.
    — John D. Harden, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2023
  • And according to some projections, its GDP per capita is even set to overtake Britain’s by the end of the decade.
    — Yascha Mounk, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Japan has the most vending machines per capita in the world and thousands of earthquakes every year.
    — Ali Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 July 2023
  • The state has the nation's most per capita overdose deaths and will receive $83 million as part of the settlement.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Yet as the world ages, GDP per capita is becoming less useful.
    — Josh Zumbrun, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Well, partially it’s based on the number of public schools per capita.
    — oregonlive, 20 Feb. 2023
  • The result is a measurement that MoneyGeek’s team says provides a value called the cost of crime per capita.
    — al, 2 Feb. 2023
  • New Orleans has the highest per capita murder rate of any major city.
    — CBS News, 22 Jan. 2023
  • But Australians also lose more per capita on sports and race betting.
    — Alex Russell, The Conversation, 3 Feb. 2023
  • The Osage were considered the wealthiest people per capita in the world.
    — Graham Lee Brewer, Rolling Stone, 18 Oct. 2023
  • The per capita rate of homelessness in communities across the country is most closely tied to the cost of housing.
    — Lindsey Holden, Sacramento Bee, 5 Feb. 2024
  • In a country where the GDP per capita is $1,800, the economic incentive to catch and sell a macaque for a couple hundred dollars is strong.
    — Erika Fry, Fortune, 27 Jan. 2024
  • In fact, only one state beats Alabama for the number of high school football players per capita.
    — Ramsey Archibald | Rarchibald@al.com, al, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The state has nearly twice as many overdose deaths per capita as its nearest competitor.
    — Elizabeth Both, NBC News, 11 Dec. 2023
  • In 1999, Gary had a higher per capita murder rate than any other city in America, with most of the killings involving firearms.
    — Tony Cook and Vernal Coleman, The Indianapolis Star, 31 Jan. 2024
  • For those reasons, younger people may take longer to reach the same level of wealth as their elders, which makes the per capita finding in the chart above even more interesting.
    — Quartz, 24 Feb. 2023
  • There were 41 homicides in Boston last year, and the five-year average is 49, one of the lowest per capita of any major American city.
    — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Alaska is one of 19 states to receive over $1 billion and received the top allocation per capita.
    — Riley Rogerson, Anchorage Daily News, 27 June 2023
  • Argentina has more bookstores per capita than anywhere else in the world, and Ateneo Grand Splendid is arguably the most famous.
    — Harrison Pierce, Travel + Leisure, 1 Oct. 2023
  • That’s roughly three times more than Europeans — and among the highest per capita consumption of any country.
    — Michael J. Coren, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Idaho already has the lowest number of active physicians per capita in the country.
    — Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 3 Apr. 2024
  • State and local taxes in Alabama were $3,756 per capita.
    — Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Although Little Rock, the state's most populous city, has the largest number of murders each year, the per capita murder rate is higher in some other cities.
    — Grant Lancaster, Arkansas Online, 23 Oct. 2023
  • The country also has the most per capita carbon emissions globally.
    — Devika Rao, theweek, 30 Jan. 2024

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