Meanings
- not comparablePer person.
So CNN looked at different rankings, and each study showed that many other countries have higher per capita testing rates.
2020 May 12, Holly Yan, “Trump says the US leads the world in testing. But it’s far behind in testing per capita, studies show”, in CNN, archived from the original on 06 Jun 20201 more example
Donations to the mosque come from a village considered fairly poor by regional standards, with an average annual income of 300 yuan (about U.S. $100) per household. The 1982 average per capita annual income in Yongning County was substantially higher, 539 yuan according to the Population Census Office (1987:206).
1998, Dru C. Gladney, “Getting Rich is Not So Glorious: Contrasting Perspectives on Prosperity Among Muslims and Han in China”, in Robert W. Hefner, editor, Market Cultures: Society and Morality in the New Asian Capitalisms, Westview Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 110Synonyms: capitated
- not comparablePer person.
As of April 26, the US ranked 22nd in the number of tests performed per capita, according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
2020 May 12, Holly Yan, “Trump says the US leads the world in testing. But it’s far behind in testing per capita, studies show”, in CNN, archived from the original on 06 Jun 2020 - not comparableEqually among all individuals.
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivePer person.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectiveper person
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latinper capita“per head”
- Englishper capita
Borrowed from Latin per capita (“per head”).
More words from Latin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Mandarin 人均的, 人均
- 人均的 (rénjūn de)per person
- 人均 (rénjūn)per person
Danish per indbygger
- per indbyggerper person
Dutch per hoofd, per hoofd
- per hoofdper person
- per hoofdper person
Esperanto pokapa
- pokapaper person
Finnish henkilöä kohti, asukasta kohti
- henkilöä kohtiper person
- asukasta kohtiper person
French par personne, par habitant
- par personneper person
- par habitantshared equally among all individuals
- par habitantper person
German Pro-Kopf-, pro Kopf
- Pro-Kopf-per person
- pro Kopfper person
Hindi प्रति व्यक्ति, फ़ी आदमी
- प्रति व्यक्ति (prati vyakti)per person
- फ़ी आदमी (fī ādmī)per person
Indonesian per kapita
- per kapitaper person
Italian pro capite, a testa
- pro capiteper person
- a testaper person
- pro capiteper person
Japanese 一人当たり, 一人当たり
- 一人当たり (hitori atari)per person
- 一人当たり (hitori-atari)per person
Korean 일인당
- 일인당 (irindang)per person
Latin per capita
- per capitaper person
Polish per capita, per capita
- per capitaper person
- per capitashared equally among all individuals
- per capitaper person
- per capitaequally among all individuals
Portuguese per capita, per capita
- per capitaper person
- per capitaper person
Romanian pe cap de locuitor, pe cap de locuitor
- pe cap de locuitorper person
- pe cap de locuitorper person
- per cap de locuitorper person
- per capitaper person
- pe capitaper person
Russian на ду́шу населе́ния
- на ду́шу населе́ния (na dúšu naselénija)per person
Spanish por cabeza, percápita
- por cabezaper person
- percápitaper person
Tagalog bawat ulo, bawat ulo
- bawat uloper person
- bawat uloper person
Turkish adam başına, adam başı
- adam başınaper person
- adam başıper person
- kişi başınaper person
Vietnamese đầu người
- đầu ngườiper person
Cite this entry
per capita. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/per%20capita
“per capita.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/per%20capita. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “per capita,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/per%20capita.
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