Sri Lanka
19,742,439 (2003 est.)
note: since the outbreak of hostilities between the government and
armed Tamil separatists in the mid-1980s, several hundred thousand
Tamil civilians have fled the island; as of yearend 2000,
approximately 65,000 were housed in 131 refugee camps in south
India, another 40,000 lived outside the Indian camps, and more than
200,000 Tamils have sought refuge in the West (July 2003 est.)
Sudan
38,114,160 (July 2003 est.)
Suriname
435,449 (July 2003 est.)
Svalbard
2,811 (July 2003 est.)
Swaziland
1,161,219
note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the
effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower
life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower
population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of
population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July
2003 est.)
Sweden
8,878,085 (July 2003 est.)
Switzerland
7,318,638 (July 2003 est.)
Syria
17,585,540 (July 2002 est.)
note: in addition, about 40,000 people live in the Israeli-occupied
Golan Heights - 20,000 Arabs (18,000 Druze and 2,000 Alawites) and
about 20,000 Israeli settlers (February 2003 est.) (July 2003 est.)
Taiwan
22,603,001 (July 2003 est.)
Tajikistan
6,863,752 (July 2003 est.)