///<summary>
/// Writes this ExternalCountry.Population to the specified stream.
///</summary>
///<param name="writer"> the output stream to write to</param>
///<param name="obj"> the object to serialize</param>
///<exception cref="IOException"> if an error occurs</exception>
public override void Serialize(HlaEncodingWriter writer, object population)
{
try
{
writer.WriteHLAfloat64BE((double)population);
}
catch (IOException ioe)
{
throw new RTIinternalError(ioe.ToString());
}
}
