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Definition of Per capita income
1. Noun. The total national income divided by the number of people in the nation.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Per Capita Income
Literary usage of Per capita income
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Livestock Products in the Third World: Past Trends and Projections to 1990 by J. S. Sarma, Patrick Yeung (1985)
"The countries are grouped according to the level of annual per capita income.
Group Very low income Low income Middle income High income Annual ..."
2. Income in the United States, Its Amount and Distribution, 1909-1919 by National Bureau of Economic Research, Wesley Clair Mitchell, Willford Isbell King, Frederick Robertson Macaulay, Oswald Whitman Knauth (1921)
"TOTAL AND per capita income IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES In 1919, Sir Josiah Stamp,
one of the highest British authorities on income statistics, made a careful ..."
3. Capital (1888)
"per capita income The growth of per capita income at current prices has been
quite impressive, thanks to the mounting rise of the price level. ..."
4. Personal Cars and China =: Si Ren Jiao Che Yu Zhongguo by National Research Council (U.S.), Zhongguo gong cheng yuan (2003)
"6 Japan 100 1000 10000 100000 GDP per capita (1995 US dollars) FIGURE 2-4 Motor
vehicle death rates in relation to per capita income, selected countries, ..."