per capita
adjective [ before noun ]
ECONOMICS, FINANCE formal (also per-capita) ukusused to refer to the amount of income earned, money spent, goods produced, etc. by or for each person:
The sharp fall in per capita income was one of the signs of the financial crisis.
per capita
adverb
ECONOMICS, FINANCE formal ukusif you state an amount per capita, you mean that amount for each person:
While the country's GDP rose 46% per capita from 1980, the average family income rose only 9.5%.
See also
GDP per capita
GNP