The per capita income barely exceeds $1,000 a year.
Nebraska has the three poorest counties in the nation, with per capita income barely $6,000 in the worst one, Loup County, according to the federal Commerce Department.
He is also an entrepreneur who has taken money earned from the more than 30 albums he has made in a solo career that spans 25 years and invested heavily in his homeland, where income per capita is barely $1,000 a year.
Mr. N'Dour has taken money earned from his singing career — a career that has lasted 25 years and brought him an international following — and invested heavily in his homeland, where income per capita is barely $1,000 a year, my colleague Larry Rohter reported.
Venezuela was richer than many western European nations in 1957, for example, with income per head at two-thirds the US level; but decades of poor policies have seen it falling farther behind instead of catching up, with GDP per capita now barely a fifth that of the US.
Why should it get the same bargain as disease-ridden, poverty-stricken Haiti, which has a per capita income barely one-sixth of Brazil's?
More than three centuries later, in 1820, early on in the Industrial Age, GWP per capita had barely budged, to $950.
In a region where the average annual gross national income (GNI) per capita is barely 890$, the rising cost of tuition fees is likely to hinder access of students from poor background to nutrition training.
In a region where the average annual GNI per capita is barely 890$ (12), public financing of nutrition training is one of the possible solutions (18), even if public funding in the region is already overstretched (15).
These gamblers buy far fewer tickets (per capita) and they barely react to increasing jackpots, even though the jackpots are large enough to cause positive expected winnings.
