Per Capita Explained — Document Checklist

Educational explainer, EXP-01 — not tied to a live news event; sourcing floor is narrow by design (see CASE_FILE.md's honesty-check paragraph)

On what's here: this video makes exactly one class of real-world factual claim — two U.S. state population totals — used purely to show the scale of the "divide by population" idea it teaches. Every other number on screen (candy counts, kid counts) is an invented, explicitly-labeled teaching example, not a claim requiring a citation. That keeps this checklist short on purpose, not because sourcing was skipped.

DIRECT = confirmed working link, verified against the source page directly.

Primary source — U.S. Census Bureau population estimates

California population, Vintage 2024 estimate VERIFIED 39,431,263 (most populous U.S. state) · U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts · census.gov/quickfacts/CA

Wyoming population, Vintage 2024 estimate VERIFIED 587,618 (least populous U.S. state) · U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts · census.gov/quickfacts/WY

Independent cross-check VERIFIED World Population Review — confirms the same approximate figures for the same vintage year (sanity check only, not the on-screen cited source) · worldpopulationreview.com/states

Arithmetic (no external source required — definitionally correct)

100 ÷ 10 = 10; 150 ÷ 25 = 6; 200 ÷ 20 = 10 Verified by direct calculation, not a claim requiring citation.

39,431,263 ÷ 587,618 ≈ 67.1 The "roughly 67 times as many people" figure stated on screen — direct division of the two verified Census figures above, rounded down for a clean spoken/on-screen number.