While looking through some of the map data, it became apparent that there is a pretty sharp cut off at TL 5 - world below TL 5 are fairly uncommon:

https://i.imgur.com/aZoBIJC.png

And a huge number of Traveller worlds have population codes between 4 and 7 with tech levels between 7 and 13. Random worlds that Travellers visit will be less populated than midsize cities - the median imperial world population is ~700,000.