Word: capita
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...eventual result will be a meat shortage, but there is always one in the U.S.S.R. Soviet per capita meat consumption is about 121 Ibs. annually. While meat and fish account for about 20% of the average American diet, they provide only 8% of the Soviet diet. Demand in the U.S.S.R. is intense, but the current Five-Year-Plan calls for increasing it only 27% by 1985. That target probably could not be reached even without the embargo. But no one will go hungry because of the embargo. Russians are breadeaters, and there is no concern on that score...
...dictate laissez-faire economic systems, but that is what is happening in Chile. The result is that inflation, which was as high as 1,000% in 1973, has been beaten back to about 38%. Real growth spurted 7.3% in 1978 and rose another 7.5% or so last year. Per capita income is up to $1,500; in real terms, the people are at least back around the income levels of 1970. That was when Allende was elected and began to crank up the printing presses to cover spiraling government deficits that led to economic disaster...
Wine consumption in the U.S. is still only a spit in the barrel by European standards: two gallons annually per capita (vs. 27 in Italy), ranging from less than three quarts per adult in West Virginia to five gallons in Washington, D.C. Nonetheless, the amount of wine drunk in the U.S. has doubled in ten years and is increasing at the rate of 5% yearly. That adds up to a huge present and future market for table wines-particularly for the California vintners, who supply 70% of all the wine consumed in this country...
...much industrial output per person as in the United States. The standards of living and the average income was of roughly the same order as in the United States. Japanese investment in new industrial plant and equipment already rivalled the United States (it totalled twice as much per capita), but with overall economic growth--especially industrial growth and productivity--increasing much more rapidly than the United States, Japan had the momentum to become the world's dominant economic power...