Sir Nicholas Stern estimates that the average per capita carbon footprint will need to be reduced to 2 tonnes per person (with an expected population of 9 billion people in 2050) for us to limit the adverse impacts of climate change.
This means that almost every country as far from the equator as Japan is near or above the world average GDP per capita, and almost every country closer to the equator than Japan is near or below the world average.
Americans consume about fifty gallons of soda a year, more than four times the average per-capita consumption sixty years ago.
The growth in median real income has been substantially slower than all of these growth rates of average per-capita income discussed thus far.
The third and largest group includes all the other existing EU countries, with two-thirds of the union's population and 115% of the EU average wealth per capita.
Consider that soft-drink makers today enjoy some of the highest operating profit margins in the food industry, even though some have reduced their calorie footprint (the average calories sold per capita) by a quarter over the last decade.
Expenses were calculated by taking the average number of per capita miles driven in each state (from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics) and dividing them by an assumed 20 miles per gallon per vehicle (the average between cars and light trucks, used by the Department of Energy for emissions tests).
Between 2002 and 2011, states without efficiency goals exhibited an average increase in per-capita electricity consumption of 9%, while states with efficiency goals had a per-capita increase of only 5%.
Also compared with the average of the 1990s, per capita annual output in the developing world has almost quadrupled.
But at a time of mass unemployment, it looks like a pretty good tradeoff that should raise per capita output and average incomes.
Average federal spending per beneficiary exceeds per capita income.
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While the Wall Street Journal (and others) look at China on a GDP per capita or the average spending power of the populace, these sources are overlooking the spending size of the upper middle and upper classes.
New York spends more than twice as much per capita as the national average.
That has pushed the total retail square footage in the region to 26 million, or about 6.5% more per capita than the national average, according to Reis Inc.
The first, comprising the poorest eight new members - Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Malta - will have a fifth of the EU population but on average just 42% of the GNP per capita.
In 1999, the average individual health insurance plan cost 11 percent of per-capita income.
It's a poor area where per capita income runs 28% below the national average.
The fact that Romania has an average January temperature in the mid-20s, the lowest per capita income in the European Union and is the home to both Dracula and Copsa Mica, one of the most polluted cities in the world, never entered into my thinking.
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Per capita income has fallen in comparison with the national average by nearly 20%.
In the 14 years before TABOR, per capita income growth in Colorado was below the national average.
Moreover, per capita income relative to the U.S. average declined substantially after adoption of state income taxes in all 11 states.
Per capita income there is 26 percent below the national average, and 27 percent of its residents are foreign-born, more than twice the national average, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
According to a study of the Greater Washington area, for example, per capita transportation emissions in the city were less than the national average, reports Grist.
Hungary has made the transition from a centrally planned to a market economy, with a per capita income nearly two-thirds that of the EU-25 average.
Indiana personal income per capita declined from 113.84% of the U.S. average to 85.79% by 2008, a decline of 28 percentage points.
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After Michigan adopted its income tax, it personal income per capita fell from 129.97% of the U.S. average to 88.8% by 2009, a decline of 41 percentage points.
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As I have mentioned before, in terms of per capita GDP, Britain actually saw more growth in living standards, on average between 1998 and 2010 than Germany, and that's including the recession.
In the 14 years after TABOR, per capita income growth was almost 20% (19.3%) higher than the national average.
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