Word: capita
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...Beer leaves unanswered the questions of why one group arose from the ghettos to prominence the professions and earn 170 percent of the national average per capita, while the other earns about two-thirds the average and has a third of its number below the poverty line...
...Quincy last year the game machines provided $400 a month, and per capita, Quincy residents do more laundry, says Prince...
...voluntary wage and price restraints, the country's inflation rate is still soaring at 300% annually. Burdened with enormous military expenditures and extensive social-welfare programs, the government last year ran a $1.8 billion deficit on a $23 billion budget. The foreign debt, the world's highest per capita, has reached $23 billion, and foreign-currency reserves have dropped to $2 billion...
...nations, Bangladesh can least afford such a tragedy. Three months ago, a World Bank survey described the country as the world's poorest, with an average annual per capita income of only $130. Two-thirds of its people live below the poverty line. In addition, Bangladesh is one of the most densely populated nations on earth: 96 million people -- more than four times the population of California -- are crammed into an area the size of Wisconsin. The cyclone aggravated already serious problems. It shattered much of the economic fabric of Bangladesh's coastal areas, leaving at least 30,000 cattle...
...Irish, counter to the stereotype, are the European community's most abstemious tipplers, consuming less than 2 gal. of alcohol per capita annually. In Britain, where the corner pub is a second home and a pint is considered a birthright, 95% of all adults in England, Scotland and Wales are drinkers. Beer consumption is down slightly, however, due to high unemployment and increased taxes on alcohol. In West Germany, beer intake has tripled over three decades, to 9 billion liters annually. "We have a saying," says an official of the National Health Ministry in Bonn, "that...