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Some propaganda:
Tho OPs pic's point remains - SW is a space western & can't give us the full picture of how the average world lived under either of systems, but going from widespread and generational corruption (not just the Jedi, but starting there) to a single point of power (dictatorship) initially lowers the corruption & dethrones (or recruits in diminished way) various mini-powers/leaders/mobsters bcs if nothing else they are simply a threat to the image.
At any rate, never be ok being governed by a 900 year old unelected frog that can't spot a Sith Lord if they shared a urinal at his visit to the senate (and the frogs religious zealotism is centred around genociding said Siths).
Billions of beings? China and India are not far off of billions. It should at least(!) be trillions.
There's 8 billion humans on earth, and if you assume that's the average planet population in the empire, you're only maybe a trillion of there's over 100 planetary civilizations under imperial rule.
I'm not a big enough nerd to know how many there really are, but thinking back to how many reps were in the republic senate scenes, it's probably around a trillion (they generally rep a planet, right?). But that's being generous, plenty of those planets are noticably smaller than Earth and I don't think they all end up imperial.
From what we've seen in the movies, there's six planets, maybe ten, in the empire. The others are most likely imperial propaganda.
Coruscant's entire surface is covered with a single city with a population density like Tokyo
If we've got an estimated surface size, could be an interesting math problem.
Coruscant has a radius of 6120km, negligible surface water, and 5127 levels, though the lowest ones aren't really habitable or inhabited. Population as of 132 BBY was 2,981,780,000,000