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  • The most sought-after jobs are the half dozen openings for skilled climbing Sherpas, who can expect to earn $1,400 to $2,500 for two months of hazardous work-attractive pay in a nation mired in grinding poverty and with an annual per capita income of around $160.†  (source)
  • The mess halls in his syndicate would not help; they rose up in uncompromising rebellion against his proposal to tax them on a per capita basis in order to enable each man to own his own share of the Egyptian cotton crop.†  (source)
  • In 2005, the annual per capita gross domestic product of the country was a mere four hundred dollars—which ranks it ahead of only the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zimbabwe among nations for which any data is available.†  (source)
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  • Since the onset of civil war, Burundi's per capita gross domestic product had fallen from roughly $180 per year to about $80, the lowest in the world, and of course that paltry figure understated the general penury.†  (source)
  • At the same time, Sweden is one of the countries that imports the most prostitutes per capita from Russia and the Baltics.†  (source)
  • In all, immigrants and their native-born children pay a third less tax per capita than others in the United States, the NRC study found.†  (source)
  • That is one reason that per capita income in the West remained flat from the fall of the Roman Empire until about 1700.†  (source)
  • In 1960-61 the per capita Government spending on African students at State-aided schools was estimated at R12.46.†  (source)
  • Its tax revenues have given the county a bonanza for roads and the highest per capita school expenditure in the state.†  (source)
  • There is far less street crime per capita in rural areas than in cities, in large part because a rural criminal is more likely to be known (and therefore caught).†  (source)
  • In the 1920s Plauen had the most millionaires per capita in Germany — and the most suicides.†  (source)
  • Offered in a year in which the average per capita income in the United States was $432, Strub's purse caused a national sensation.†  (source)
  • But for reasons no one quite understands, it then began to rise, steeply and dramatically, by leaps and bounds every year, until by the end of the 1980s there were more suicides per capita in Micronesia than anywhere else in the world.†  (source)
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