In my institution we use 5000 - 10000 (5-10kg) earthworms per 1 m x 1m x 0.40 cm of volume (instalation) and use 720 kg of earthworm food. That is the recomendation to start a little new project.
In general I ton substrate requires 1kg earthworm i.e. around 1000 numbers of earthworms. However if you add more numbers of earthworms it will increase the decomposition rate and will reduce the maturity time of the compost.