try 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 2001 est.)

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands:
no indigenous
inhabitants

note: the small military garrison on South Georgia withdrew in
March 2001, to be replaced by a permanent group of scientists of the
British Antarctic Survey which also has a biological station on Bird
Island; the South Sandwich Islands are uninhabited (July 2001 est.)

Spain:
40,037,995 (July 2001 est.)

Spratly Islands:
no indigenous inhabitants

note: there are scattered garrisons occupied by personnel of
several claimant states (July 2001 est.)

Sri Lanka:
19,408,635 (July 2001 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 mid-1999, approximately
66,000 were housed in 133 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

Sudan:
36,080,373 (July 2001 est.)

Suriname:
433,998 (July 2001 est.)

Svalbard:
2,332 (July 2001 est.)

Swaziland:
1,104,343

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
2001 est.)

Sweden:
8,875,053 (July 2001 est.)

Switzerland:
7,283,274 (July 2001 est.)

Syria:
16,728,808

note: in addition, there are about 38,200 people living in the
Israeli-occupied Golan Heights - 18,200 Arabs (16,500 Druze and
1,700 Alawites) and about 20,000 Israeli settlers (July 2001 est.)

Tajikistan:
6,578,681 (July 2001 est.)

Tanzania:
36,232,074

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 b