Spain
40,525,002 (July 2009 est.)
Spratly Islands
no indigenous inhabitants
note: there are scattered garrisons occupied by personnel of several
claimant states
Sri Lanka
21,324,791
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 and more than 200,000 Tamils
have sought refuge in the West (July 2009 est.)
Sudan
41,087,825 (July 2009 est.)
Suriname
481,267 (July 2009 est.)
Svalbard
2,116 (July 2009 est.)
Swaziland
1,123,913
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, higher death rates, lower
population growth rates, and changes in the distribution of
population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July
2009 est.)
Sweden
9,059,651 (July 2009 est.)
Switzerland
7,604,467 (July 2009 est.)
Syria
20,178,485
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 (July 2009 est.)