per capita income

1. 1.

   the total national income divided by the number of people in the nation

   Broaderincome

Questions about per capita income

What does per capita income mean?

per capita income means "the total national income divided by the number of people in the nation".

Is per capita income a common word?

per capita income is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.