Bhutan 2,232,291 note: other estimates range as low as 810,000 (July 2005 est.)
Bolivia
8,857,870 (July 2005 est.)
Bosnia and Herzegovina
4,025,476 (July 2005 est.)
Botswana
1,640,115
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
2005 est.)
Bouvet Island
uninhabited (July 2005 est.)
Brazil
186,112,794
note: Brazil took a count in August 2000, which reported a
population of 169,799,170; that figure was about 3.3% lower than
projections by the US Census Bureau, and is close to the implied
underenumeration of 4.6% for the 1991 census; 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 2005 est.)
British Indian Ocean Territory
no indigenous inhabitants
note: approximately 1,200 former agricultural workers resident in
the Chagos Archipelago, often referred to as Chagossians or Ilois,
were relocated to Mauritius and the Seychelles in the 1960s and
1970s, in November 2000 they were granted the right of return by a
British High Court ruling, though no timetable has been set; in
2001, there were approximately 1,500 UK and US military personnel
and 2,000 civilian contractors living on the island of Diego Garcia
(July 2005 est.)
British Virgin Islands
22,643 (July 2005 est.)
Brunei
372,361 (July 2005 est.)
Bulgaria
7,450,349 (July 2005 est.)