How to Use per capita in a Sentence

per capita

adverb or adjective
  • That amounts to an increase of about a $50 per capita, not a cut.
    Vance Ginn, National Review, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Even with job cuts, the force remains one of the largest in the nation per capita.
    Jeremy Kohler, ProPublica, 12 Sep. 2022
  • The country has more saunas per capita than any other in the world.
    Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 9 Jan. 2024
  • These nations spend half as much per capita on health care as the U.S.
    Juan Enriquez, Scientific American, 7 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • Bumpers said that in 1971, Arkansas was third in the nation in per capita growth rate.
    The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 22 May 2022
  • The cost of raising a child to age 18 in China is 6.3 times higher than the country’s GDP per capita.
    Kathleen Magramo, CNN, 17 July 2024
  • In terms of residents charged per capita, a few of the closest areas lead.
    Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Even in Wisconsin, one of the largest dairy states per capita, the least milk goes to making butter.
    Noah Lederman, Bon Appétit, 9 June 2022
  • 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
  • These metrics include the cost of a movie, the ease of access to national parks, and the number of nightlife options per capita.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Well, partially it’s based on the number of public schools per capita.
    oregonlive, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Those are princely sums in a nation where the yearly per capita income is $4,000.
    Soudi Jiménez, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2022
  • The result is a measurement that MoneyGeek’s team says provides a value called the cost of crime per capita.
    al, 2 Feb. 2023
  • But is that true in a state with a long heritage of beer-making, the third most bars per capita in the U.S., and a high percentage of excessive drinkers?
    Hope Karnopp, Journal Sentinel, 23 Sep. 2024
  • New Orleans has the highest per capita murder rate of any major city.
    CBS News, 22 Jan. 2023
  • The state has the nation’s cheapest water rates and is among the largest municipal users per capita.
    Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Nov. 2022
  • But Australians also lose more per capita on sports and race betting.
    Alex Russell, The Conversation, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Our goal is to bring Ukraine into the top five countries with the highest number of startups per capita in Europe.
    Oleksandr Bornyakov, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2022
  • The nation is among the world’s poorest, based on per capita income, and the population has tripled in just decades, to 29 million.
    Dyan MacHan, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2022
  • 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
  • From there, our team ranked each state by the rate of each location per capita and ranked the google trends data, which is already normalized for population.
    Grace Manthey, CBS News, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Within two decades of TVA’s existence, per capita income had risen to about 60% of the national average.
    Jared Sullivan, TIME, 30 Oct. 2024

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