But even a per-capita peak of 10 tonnes means total emissions of 13 billion tonnes.
Average annual per capita water consumption, peak hour, and maximum daily demands vary widely depending on factors such as climate, income levels, population, and the proportions of residential, commercial, and industrial users.
When the official figures for the second quarter of 2014 are released next month they will show that national output is back above its pre-recession levels in early 2008, albeit still well below its former peak in per capita terms.
"Because China follows a different pattern of development, it is very likely that pollution will peak when per capita income reaches US$3,000," he said, comparing this with the $8,000 he said was the norm in other nations.
Despite high price, however, population growth has resulted in a 44% decline of real oil revenue per capita since the 1980 price peak.
Interestingly, the time separation between the neonatal peak in per capita mortality rate and the mortality peak at maximum play age was also 28 months (Fig. 5).
At the peak, GNP per capita is 50percentt above the pre-transition level.
Differences in temporal trends between the provinces are apparent in Figure 2, panel B, which shows that in terms of per capita incidence, substantially higher epidemic peaks are reached in provinces outside HCMC than within HCMC.
Over all in 2011, federal weapons prosecutions per capita were down 35 percent from their peak in the previous administration.
China's chief climate negotiator, Xie Zhenhua, recently said China's emissions could peak when its per capita gross domestic product reaches roughly half of what it was when developed countries' emissions peaked.
All told, the number of new TB cases per capita has dropped slightly from a peak of 142 cases per 100,000 in 2004 to 139 per 100,000 in 2007.
