Example sentences for: per-capita

How can you use “per-capita” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 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.

  • Jerusalem is the spiritual and governmental center of a bustling nation with a lively contemporary cultural scene and a per-capita income that ranks among the 25 highest in the world.

  • 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.

  • Overall, the per-capita GNP gap between industrialized and Third World nations will grow from $4,000 in 1975 to "about $7,900" in 2000.

  • 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).


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