per capita[adverb]Synonyms: apiece, all, aside, each, per, per caput
[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲
per cap‧i‧ta /pə ˈkæpətə $ pər-/
adjective, adverb formal[
Date: 1600-1700;
Language: Latin;
Origin: 'by heads']
used to describe the average amount of something in a particular place, calculated according to the number of people who live there:
the country’s per capita income the number of crimes that occur per capita [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲