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per capita income

n. the total national income divided by the number of people in the nation

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Per capita income

Per capita income or average income measures the average income earned per person in a given area (city, region, country, etc.) in a specified year. It is calculated by dividing the area's total income by its total population.

Usage examples of "per capita income".

Iraqi GNP declined in 1989, and per capita income fell to half of what it had been in 1980.

Furthermore, the per capita income in Baraza was still only sixty dollars a year, and industrialization had hardly begun.

In 1950 the per capita income was eight hundred and seventy dollars a year.

We ranked forty-sixth in per capita income, but were still forty-third in per capita state and local taxes.

In those dark ages of increasing national government control (1960-80) and new welfare schemes, per capita income grew 73 per cent in Latin America and 34 per cent in Africa.

Should I start serious bribing around here, the per capita income of this county would shoot up like a skyrocket.

In per capita income they rank with the Americans, West Germans, and Japanese.

He took immense pride in the fact that the small town just south of Birmingham had one of the highest per capita income levels in the nation.

Although we still ranked forty-sixth, we were finally above the national average in teacher pay as a percentage of state per capita income, and almost at the national average in per-pupil expenditures as a percentage of income.

The per capita income here was high, the population dispersed, and the preservation of the forests so much a religion—.

The official reported per capita income of all the adults in Holly Park was $2,953.