Synonyms of per capita

per capita

adverb

(ˌ)pər-ˈka-pə-tə 

as in a shot

for each one

we expect the students to receive less funding per capita this year due to a marked increase in the school-age population

Synonyms & Similar Words

• a shot
• each
• per
• a pop
• a throw
• apiece
• all
• separately
• apart
• respectively
• individually
• independently
• singly
• discretely

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• together
• collectively
• altogether
• aggregately

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of per capita

Gaza now has more child amputees per capita than anywhere in the world. — Edith M. Lederer, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026

California has the lowest residential energy consumption per capita and the third-highest home energy efficiency. — Sacbee.com, 20 Oct. 2026

Kansas City also ranked 176th in the assaults per capita metric, the fourth-lowest city in the metric. — Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 19 Oct. 2026

The city has the country’s second-lowest greenhouse-gas emissions per capita and tied for the cleanest air among the cities studied. — Bailey Berg, Travel + Leisure, 19 Oct. 2026

In the decade to 2015, real per capita incomes in Sub-Saharan Africa grew by about a fifth. — Masood Ahmed, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2026

Winter Springs operates with one of the region’s lowest municipal property-tax rates and a lowest number of employees per capita. — Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 Oct. 2026

But Superintendent Robert McDermott noted that Penn High School has twice as many students, so Chesterton students actually led the state in dual college credit hours earned per capita. — Jim Woods, Chicago Tribune, 13 Oct. 2026

By the end of the Second World War, half of Argentinean households had a radio—more per capita than some European countries. — Jordan Salama, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026