| Rank | Country | Population |
186 | Sao Tome and Principe | 206,178 (July 2008 est.) |
44 | Saudi Arabia | 28,161,417 note: includes 5,576,076 non-nationals (July 2008 est.) |
68 | Senegal | 12,853,259 (July 2008 est.) |
81 | Serbia | 10,159,046 note: all population data includes Kosovo (July 2008 est.) |
198 | Seychelles | 82,247 (July 2008 est.) |
103 | Sierra Leone | 6,294,774 (July 2008 est.) |
118 | Singapore | 4,608,167 (July 2008 est.) |
110 | Slovakia | 5,455,407 (July 2008 est.) |
146 | Slovenia | 2,007,711 (July 2008 est.) |
166 | Solomon Islands | 581,318 (July 2008 est.) |
85 | Somalia | 9,558,666 note: this estimate was derived from an official census taken in 1975 by the Somali Government; population counting in Somalia is complicated by the large number of nomads and by refugee movements in response to famine and clan warfare (July 2008 est.) |
28 | South Africa | 43,786,115 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, higher death rates, lower population growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2008 est.) |
| South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands | no indigenous inhabitants note: the small military garrison on South Georgia withdrew in March 2001 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 |
| Southern Ocean | void |
30 | Spain | 40,491,051 (July 2008 est.) |
| Spratly Islands | no indigenous inhabitants note: there are scattered garrisons occupied by personnel of several claimant states |
53 | Sri Lanka | 21,128,773 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 2008 est.) |
31 | Sudan | 40,218,455 (July 2008 est.) |
169 | Suriname | 475,996 (July 2008 est.) |
229 | Svalbard | 2,165 (July 2008 est.) |
154 | Swaziland | 1,128,814 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 2008 est.) |
88 | Sweden | 9,045,389 (July 2008 est.) |
95 | Switzerland | 7,581,520 (July 2008 est.) |
56 | Syria | 19,747,586 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 2008 est.) |
50 | Taiwan | 22,920,946 (July 2008 est.) |
97 | Tajikistan | 7,211,884 (July 2008 est.) |
32 | Tanzania | 40,213,162 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 2008 est.) |
20 | Thailand | 65,493,298 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 2008 est.) |
155 | Timor-Leste | 1,108,777 note: other estimates range as low as 800,000 (July 2008 est.) |
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