Australia is one of the world's worst emitters of greenhouse gases per head of population.
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South Carolina has more military veterans per head than any other state in the union.
The spend per head on health was 10% above the UK figure in Scotland.
Embassies, armies and road networks are all likely to cost less per head in populous countries.
Return to 1998 levels of spending per head and reduce the size of government.
Previously Catalonia, although Spain's fourth-richest region, received less public spending per head than several others.
It takes 200 days to secure them and costs 2, 718% of national income per head.
In 1994, South Africans drank about five litres of pure ethanol equivalent per head.
Well run countries with a lot of aid grew faster, at 3.7% per head a year.
Ordinary Tunisians' lives have improved, with income per head doubling in real terms since 1990.
Some talked of a coming boom that might take Russia's income per head above Spain's by 2010.
As recently as the early 1990s, India was as rich, in terms of national income per head.
But it is no better than what happens when GDP per head grows by the same amount.
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"We're probably the richest country per head in the world in terms of renewable energy, " he said.
Greece has almost double the number of shops per head as the western European average, says McKinsey.
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The UK is ranked tenth among European countries in terms of asylum seekers per head of population.
Small countries can go on capturing shares in big world markets until their income per head catches up.
Officially, one Peruvian in two lives in poverty and income per head is below its level of 1973.
For a spell in the 1970s, revenues from phosphate mining gave Nauruans the world's largest income per head.
The south-east (excluding London) received 87% of the UK figure per head, and the north-east was on 107%.
It also points out that its consumption and emission levels per head remain a mere fraction of America's.
Since then paper consumption in offices has doubled, from 100 pounds to 200 pounds per head per year.
The ONS has looked at net national income per head, rather than the average wages that workers receive.
Ms Hutt added that in Wales, there is more spending per head on the health service compared to England.
Africa today produces less food per head than at any time since independence.
In Portugal, if a city is twice the size of another, people make 12% more phone calls per head.
The minister said less money was spent, per head, on health in Northern Ireland compared to Scotland and Wales.
Yet its figures show GDP per head rising compared with the Italian average.
Saudi Arabia, for example, ranks below the Philippines and Indonesia in sophistication, despite having a higher income per head.
America spends 53% more per head than the next most profligate country and almost two-and-a-half times the rich-country average.
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