Bluebulb Projects' The Measure of Things presents:
25,000 is about one-one-thousand-five-hundredth the number of people in The State of California
In other words, it's 0.0006521 times the count of people in The State of California, and the count of people in The State of California is 1,534 times that amount.
(2014 figures) (Department of Finance estimate)
