The radio pulsar population of the Small Magellanic Cloud
  We model the present day, observable, normal radio pulsar population of the
Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). The pulsars are generated with SeBa, a binary
population synthesis code that evolves binaries and the constituent stellar
objects up to remnant formation and beyond. We define radio pulsars by
selecting neutron stars that satisfy a selection of criteria defined by
Galactic pulsars, and apply the detection thresholds of previous and future SMC
pulsar surveys.The number of synthesised and recovered pulsars are
exceptionally sensitive to the assumed star formation history and applied radio
luminosity model, but is not affected extensively by the assumed common
envelope model, metallicity, and neutron star kick velocity distribution. We
estimate that the SMC formed (1.6$\pm$0.3)$\times 10^4$ normal pulsars during
the last 100 Myrs. We study which pulsars could have been observed by the
Parkes multibeam survey of the SMC, by applying the survey's specific selection
effects, and recover 4.0$\pm$0.8 synthetic pulsars.This is in agreement with
their five observed pulsars. We also apply a proposed MeerKAT configuration for
the upcoming SMC survey, and predict that the MeerKAT survey will detect
17.2$\pm$2.5 pulsars.
