Definition of "per capita income" []

• The total national income divided by the number of people in the nation (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Looking at its contemporary prosperity and dynamism, it is difficult to recall that the ROK's per capita income was a meagre US$79 in 1960."
• "In thirty years, Servan-Schreiber predicted, "America will be a post-industrial society with a per capita income of $7,500."
• "Delivering the first convocation address of the Bharathidasan University's constituent college for women, Ponnavaikko said that the country remained poor with respect to per capita income though it has good gross domestic product (GDP) growth and purchase power parity."