Of the 22 industrialized nations of the world, we're dead last in per capita giving to poor people.
Africa has more dictators per capita than any other continent.
Per capita the East Germans drank more than twice as much as their West German counterparts.
If US per capita income continues to grow at a rate of 1. 5 percent a year, the country will have plenty of money to finance comfortable retirements and high-quality healthcare for all citizens, including those at the bottom of the wage ladder.
The one-child policy was based on some faulty science and had, as an ambition, reining in Chinese population growth, so as to enhance the per capita wealth of the country.
If you look at casualties, you find countries that had much higher loss rates per capita than the US. Denmark comes to mind, the United Kingdom, they have suffered heavy losses at various points, the Germans as well.
Every major country on earth, whether it's the U. K. , whether it's France, whether it's Canada, has managed to provide healthcare to all people as a right and they are spending significantly less per capita on health care than we are. So I do not accept the belief that the United States of America can't do that.
I once read that more millionaires per capita were created during the Great Depression than at any other time in history.
If per capita was a problem, decapita could be arranged
The U. S. has the most dysfunctional healthcare system in the industrial world, has about twice the per capita costs, and some of the worst outcomes. It's also the only privatized system.
In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease.