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
• Tennessee has recorded the second-most closures of any state, with 15, and the most closures per capita.
  — Kff Health News, The Mercury News, 3 July 2024
• Alabama has the highest rate of death sentences per capita in America, in addition to one of the highest execution rates.
  — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 26 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024