How to Use per capita in a Sentence

per capita

adverb or adjective

• The per capita rate of creepy smiles here is off the freakin’ charts.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2024
• 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
• Covid-19 deaths per capita to the highest in the world, according to Our World in Data.
  — Ezra Cheung, NBC News, 15 Mar. 2022
• Colbert County in the Shoals had the largest per capita decline in cases over the last week.
  — Ramsey Archibald | [e-mail], al, 2 Feb. 2022
• 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
• The small island nation produces more films per capita than anywhere in the world.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 29 Mar. 2022
• 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 same data suggest Canada has one of the lowest per capita death rates from Covid-19 in the developed world.
  — Paul Vieira, WSJ, 3 Mar. 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
• Howard County has the second-highest income per capita of any county in the U.S.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 11 Feb. 2022
• New Orleans has the highest per capita murder rate of any major city.
  — CBS News, 22 Jan. 2023
• The report said its position in the rankings was in part due to having the highest number of people arrested for fraud per capita.
  — David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Dec. 2024
• Within these areas, WalletHub considered more than 60 metrics, including restaurants per capita, the time of last call, and the average price for a three-star hotel room.
  — Madeline Fitzgerald, Quartz, 2 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Jan 2025