Jedi Per Capita

Coruscant (>1 trillion people) has less Jedi (10,000) per capita (0.01 ppm) than Marvel New York (~10 million people) has Spider Man (1) per captia (0.1 ppm)

You know, just for scale.

But the Republic doesn’t just expect Jedi to solve Coruscant’s problems, they expect Jedi to solve the entire Republic’s problems. (at least two orders of magnitude larger)

And certain so-called fans expect them to solve not just the Republic’s problems, but the entire galaxy’s problems. With no legal backing.

The galaxy has 3.2 billion hospitable systems (via The Visual Dictionary from 2017).  There are ten thousand Jedi in comparison. Coruscant alone had trillions (Victory’s Price), which is much bigger than our own Earth’s population of 7 billion, for scale.  Let’s say 2 trillion, for a conservative amount.  That means there is one Jedi for every two hundred million people.  On Coruscant. The last estimate of a galactic population (from The Essential Atlas, which is Legends, but even if the number itself changes, I think it’ll still be in the same ballpark) was 100 quadrillion sentients. That makes one Jedi out of every 100,000,000,000 (one hundred billion) people in the galaxy. Whatever authority the Republic granted them (which was extremely conditional and often didn’t matter much when the Jedi tried to do important things, to find better ways), there is literally no way the Jedi could solve the galaxy’s problems by themselves, they just did not have the numbers. And that’s before like half of them died in the Clone Wars.