Example sentences for: per-capita

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  • With a relatively small population for an urban county, Marin County was one of the wealthiest counties in the United States in 2000, with a median per-capita income of almost US$58,000, about 200% higher than the state and national medians [ 1 ] . Marin County consistently ranks among counties in the nation with the most highly educated populations, with at least 44% of adults having a bachelor's degree, which is 220% higher than the national rate in 1990 [ 13 ] . It also has a higher percentage of white, non-Hispanic residents (80%) than surrounding counties [ 9 ] .

  • GNP is projected to increase everywhere, especially in Latin America, but by 2000 North America, Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan will average more than $11,000 in per-capita GNP (1975 dollars), while India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan, will all remain below $200 in per-capita GNP (1975 dollars).

  • Marin County, located north of San Francisco, California, is distinguished among urban counties in the United States by its relatively small population (250,000 residents), by a median per-capita income of more than 200% that of the nation [ 1 ] , and by elevated rates of breast cancer that were first reported in the early 1990s [ 2 ] . The media has since pronounced Marin County 'the breast cancer capital of the world' [ 3 ] , and heightened community concern has inspired grassroots and scientific efforts to investigate reasons for the high incidence.

  • The War on Drugs has been raging through my entire lifetime, and despite hundreds of billions of tax dollars, the triumphant propaganda of the DEA, and at least seven administrations, drugs are absolutely everywhere, and the United States has the biggest per-capita drug-related incarceration rate this side of Hell.

  • The Post notes that Armenia is one of the highest per-capita recipients of U.S. foreign aid, and the negotiations with Azerbaijan are a special project of Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.


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