Per capita
Categories: Metrics, International
Per capita just means "per head." Yep. Comes from Latin, like oh so many things: salsa, dressing, and dancing, among many others.
The word decapitation comes to, uh...mind. Like, what happens when those flying human taxi drones tip too far to the left, or when King Henry got tired of his Queen.
So, if that happened often, it’d throw off the per capita calculations. And same deal if we suddenly had a lot of two-headed people being born, like that guy in Men in Black 2.
Per capita is a useful metric in a bunch of financial calculations. A common set is GDP, or Gross Domestic Product, per capita. Like, you can have a ton of GDP...say, 10 trillion dollars from your country, WhateverStan. If you have only a million people, that’s a ton of production productivity. But if you’re, say, China, with well over a billion people, then it’s a much lower GDP per capita.
The calculations get quoted when talking about cell phone monthly subscriptions computer ownership, or a particularly rollicking house party.
So yeah, the notion of per capita is pretty important. But don't stress if you're not an expert yet. It's nothing to lose your head over.
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finance a la shmoop. what does per-capita mean? well there's poor capita yeah this
guy, how would you like to be named capita and then there's per capita which [man sits under a tree]
just means well technically per head. yep comes from Latin like oh so many
things salsa dressing and dancing among others, the word decapitation comes to [dancing feet]
mind. like what happens when those flying human taxi drones get too far to the
left or when King Henry got tired of a wife. so if that happened often it had [helicopter prop]
throw off the per capita calculations. and same deal if we suddenly had a lot
of two-headed people being born like the aliens in men in black and whole bunch
other Hollywood movies. per capita is a useful metric in a bunch of financial
calculations. a common set is GDP or gross domestic product per capita .like
if you have a ton of GDP say ten trillion dollars from your country [100 dollar bill]
whateverstan, if you only have a million people that's a ton of production
productivity. but if you're say China with well over a billion people well
then it's a much lower GDP per capita. the calculations get quoted when talking
about things like cell phone monthly subscriptions, computer ownership or [people crowd around a cell phone]
particularly rollicking house parties. so yeah the notion of per capita is pretty
important but don't stress if you're not an expert yet. it's a nothing to lose
your head over. [man carries head]