The country is particularly strong in car production, the world's largest producer per capita, making more than 1m VW, Peugot Citroën and Kia vehicles last year.
That petered out with another foreign invasion, the US carpet-bombing campaign during the Vietnam War that, per capita, made Laos the most bombed country in history.
Nationwide, bottled water consumption grew by 11percentt last year, to 17 gallons per capita, making it the fastest growing beverage in the country and more popular than fruit drinks for the first time, according to the Beverage Marketing Corporation, a research and consulting company in Manhattan.
Demand for urban public transport is expressed as the number of trips per capita made in the urban areas (q) and the variables used to explain demand consists of fare (F), Vehicle-kilometres (V), Price of petrol (PP ,3 Income (Y) and Car ownership (C).
But, revolutionary though that would be, achieving that would still mean that developing countries would have to make big cuts too -- perhaps by 60percentt per capita, cuts made all the more painful by the continued population growth poor nations are expected to experience.
But is canny Capita also making a more general point?
Second, debt does not decline as the population falls; so the debt per capita rises, making individuals even more cautious.
Europe is trying to step into the leadership vacuum, but without the world's largest national economy and per capita polluter making greater efforts, success is in jeopardy.
UBS analysts issued a neutral recommendation and said: With £458m aggregate contract wins year to date (versus £1,200m this time last year, and £1,800m in 2015 overall) Capita has made a slower start as expected.
Geoffrey Buckingham, chair of the Association of Police and Court Interpreters, who has led the campaign against the contract, said the latest figures raised doubts about whether Capita would make money from the contract.
