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Date: 1600-1700
Language: Latin
Origin: 'by heads'

per capita

 adjective, adverb
     
per cap‧i‧ta formal
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
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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