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  2. Per capita income - Wikipedia

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    Per capita income is often used to measure a sector's average income and compare the wealth of different populations. Per capita income is also often used to measure a country's standard of living . When used to compare income levels of different countries, it is usually expressed using a commonly used international currency, such as the euro ...

  3. Standard of living in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In 2006, median income was $43,318 per household ($26,000 per household member) [1] with 42% of households having two income earners. [46] Meanwhile, the median income of the average American age 25+ was roughly $32,000 [2] ($39,000 if only counting those employed full-time between the ages of 25 and 64) in 2005. [3]

  4. Democracy and economic growth - Wikipedia

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    This means that as an economic structure transforms, and since it is related to capital intensity, capital itself becomes more important than land, which is one of the reasons that states with a higher income per capita would generally perform better. As mentioned, the causality of economic development and democracy is inconclusive.

  5. Per capita personal income in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Median personal income in the United States. As per United States Census Bureau 2022 data, the mean per capita income in the United States is $37,683, while median household income is around $69,021. [1] One of the most commonly used metrics for gauging the economic performance and shifting fortunes of local economies is per capita income (PCI ...

  6. Economic development - Wikipedia

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    Daphne Greenwood and Richard Holt distinguish economic development from economic growth on the basis that economic development is a "broadly based and sustainable increase in the overall standard of living for individuals within a community", and measures of growth such as per capita income do not necessarily correlate with improvements in ...

  7. Income distribution - Wikipedia

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    The Gini coefficient for household per capita income has gone down from 0,54 to 0,49. This decline is due to boosted income of the poor by sustained economic growth and implementation of social policies, for example increase in minimum wage or targeted social programs.

  8. Malthusianism - Wikipedia

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    Their theoretical structure suggests that as long as higher income has a positive effect on reproductive success, and land is a limiting factor in resource production, then technological progress has only a temporary effect on income per capita (per person). While in the short run technological progress increases income per capita, resource ...

  9. Income and fertility - Wikipedia

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    Graph of total fertility rate vs. GDP (PPP) per capita of the corresponding country, 2015 [1] [2] Income and fertility is the association between monetary gain on one hand, and the tendency to produce offspring on the other. There is generally an inverse correlation between income and the total fertility rate within and between nations.