Copenhagen's energy consumption per capita has fallen by around 20% since 1993, with greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions per capita dropping at a slightly faster rate.
In Zimbabwe, the worst performing country, wealth per capita dropped from $630 a person in 2000 to $550 a person in 2014.
As a result, right after the Great Recession hit, GDP per capita dropped.
But even this per-capita drop does not tell the whole story, because in this same six-and-a-half-year period the total production of tobacco itself, as distinct from the total number of cigarettes sold, has dropped from two billion three hundred and forty-four million pounds to one billion eight hundred million pounds a decrease of about twenty per cent.
He blames Venezuela's ills on corruption, which in the past three decades has seen per capita wealth drop by 25%, a fall only superseded in the Americas by Haiti.
For a 50% reduction in global emissions by 2050, the world average per capita must drop from seven tonnes to two or three.
In 2014, modelling by the Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis estimated that gross domestic product per capita would drop by 48% once the mines are exhausted, with substantial effects kicking in as early as 2027.
And with the recent policy initiatives to increase energy efficiency, energy use per capita will drop below 310 million Btu in 2020 and continue to decline at a slow rate through 2030.
The rate of water consumption in most countries in the region already exceeds the harnessed renewable water supply: at the present population growth rate, the average annual available water per indigenous capita will drop further to ~100 m3 or less by the year 2020 (Håkan and Jägerskog 2006).
Because in Kenya, rural wealth creation is derived from the interaction of natural and infrastructural capita, a drop or erosion in the quality of local ecosystems (e.g., quality of water and soil) could significantly affect local sustainability and human development.
