what does per capita mean?
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Per person on average
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Rate. It means how many percent of the population get murdered, not the number of ppl who got murdered in a country! so USA is a stupid answer. and I don't know the answer.
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Depends on the country
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It means "increasing or growing in numbers in a short time that it becomes significant". The second part of the sentence "who in this increasingly integrated world will be able to compete with American kids more direcly than ever for high-value-added jobs" gives the clue.
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I've always thought it meant "very common,inexpensive and or plentiful".  \nFor example:  In the summertime sunglasses are a dime a dozen.  \nMeaning: they are in every store and you can get them cheap because it's summer.
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It is how the values (data samples) are laid out over the numbers in your population.  I'm assuming you are referring to the empirical distribution function, which is a step function showing, at each X, for example, how many data points are less than X.\n\nTry this website for more definitions:\nhttp://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~stark/SticiGui/Text/gloss.htm
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It means an abundance of.
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Generally it is the standard deviation, or range of typical answers.  The mean usually is the center of the bars, but not always.
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ratio is an expression of relative size of two numbers, the numbers could be any things... (ratio of doctors in london to kangaroos in australia)\n\nproportion is the ratio \n1) of a part considered in relation with the whole... (milk in my recipe, doctors in london to population of london), or \n2) statement of equality between two ratios (used only mathematically)\n\nFor practice problems on ration proportions, log on to www.mathguru.com and select relevant topics.
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It is Latin "per procurationem" literally meaning:by delegation to.\nIn plain English it means that you are signing a letter on behalf of someone else.
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A sum of average wages in every country multiplied by number of employed in every of them... If to count only legally working persons.\n\nADDITION taking into account other answers: currency matter little - almost all products move all over the world now. Another thing that some people evaluate the same services more or less. Mostly because of lower investment into their self-esteem and education... That makes one countries even more poor than they could be.
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That means a survey of a population of similar cases to find out what percentage of cases exhibit one characteristic versus another. It's a statistical kind of attempt to find out what the average is and how much different cases might deviate from the average case. In mathematical statistics they refer to these parameters of the population as the mean and standard deviation.
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The Population Growth of the World's Largest Country\nWith just over 1.3 billion people (1,306,314,000 as of mid-2005), China is the world's largest and most populous country.
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GDP (PPP) 2005 estimate\n • Total $1.077 trillion (11th)\n • Per capita $32,800 (16th)
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purchasing power parity is the other term for per capita national income, which means the capacity of the population to individually, spend... in a macroeconomic business cycle, enhanced spending increases the volume of business cycles... am not very sure of the definition.. i have told you what i know..\npls refer the next answer...
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Go to this web site:\n\n        http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html\n\nEnter in the dialog box:  United States.  Scroll down until you find GDP - per capita:
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Oddly enough I just saw a shirt saying it in several different countries LOL. Um in the US I'm fairly sure it's state by state basis. 17 for new york if that helps.