The well-known concept of per capita is a term that comes from the Latin language and that means in other words 'for each head'. This term is normally used in the field of statistics, whether social, economic or of any kind and it is also common to use it to refer to different types of divisions or distributions between groups or communities of people since it always implies how much receives or perceives each of these people.
One of the most common ways in which the concept of per capita can be found is that which has to do with the estimated average income of the population of a certain region. Thus, a division is made on the total figure to know with certainty an equitable number for each of the people. However, the problem with this exercise is that the per capita number does not always reflect reality: for example, if the per capita income of the Argentine population is 1,000 pesos, this does not mean that everyone earns that yes or yes since there may be few people who earn much more and many people who earn much less. The acronym used to indicate this data is normally that of GDP or gross domestic product that always includes the notion of per capita since the final result tells us how much each of those people who are part of that community produces.
However, the expression per capita can also be used for many other things, although they are always related to some kind of figure. It is normal to find a proportion of the environmental impact that a region generates per capita, although, again, that figure is not entirely correct or true, but it serves mainly to know an average of the region.
