structures from early settlement are located near the
middle of the west coast; visited annually by US Fish and Wildlife
Service (2004 est.)

Bangladesh
141,340,476 (July 2004 est.)

Barbados
278,289 (July 2004 est.)

Bassas da India
uninhabited (July 2004 est.)

Belarus
10,310,520 (July 2004 est.)

Belgium
10,348,276 (July 2004 est.)

Belize
272,945 (July 2004 est.)

Benin
7,250,033
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
2004 est.)

Bermuda
64,935 (July 2004 est.)

Bhutan
2,185,569
note: other estimates range as low as 810,000 (July 2004 est.)

Bolivia
8,724,156 (July 2004 est.)

Bosnia and Herzegovina
4,007,608 (July 2004 est.)

Botswana
1,561,973
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
2004 est.)

Bouvet Island
uninhabited (July 2004 est.)

Brazil
184,101,109
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 2004 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