per capita
(also per-capita) adjective [before noun] formal ECONOMICS, FINANCEDefinition
› used to refer to the amount of income earned, money spent, goods produced, etc. by or for each person: The sharp fall in per capita income was one of the signs of the financial crisis.
(Definition of per capita adjective from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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