When a promise is made to every adult citizen, this is the number it is multiplied by. The ACS one-year estimate for 2024 is 245,275,126 with a margin of error of about 159,000.
Five thousand dollars times that count is 1,226 billion dollars; forty trillion dollars of debt divided by it is 163,385 dollars a head.
The Gazette does the multiplication so the reader does not have to take a round number on trust.