otal: 14 years
male: 14 years
female: 14 years (2006)

Bulgaria
total: 14 years
male: 13 years
female: 14 years (2006)

Burkina Faso
total: 5 years
male: 5 years
female: 4 years (2006)

Burma
total: 8 years
male: 8 years
female: 8 years (2001)

Burundi
total: 7 years
male: 8 years
female: 7 years (2006)

Cambodia
total: 10 years
male: 10 years
female: 9 years (2006)

Cameroon
total: 9 years
male: 10 years
female: 8 years (2006)

Canada
total: 17 years
male: 17 years
female: 17 years (2004)

Cape Verde
total: 12 years
male: 11 years
female: 12 years (2006)

Cayman Islands
total: 13 years
male: 12 years
female: 13 years (2001)

Chad
total: 6 years
male: 7 years
female: 4 years (2005)

Chile
total: 14 years
male: 14 years
female: 14 years (2006)

China
total: 11 years
male: 11 years
female: 11 years (2006)

Colombia
total: 12 years
male: 12 years
female: 13 years (2006)

Comoros
total: 8 years
male: 9 years
female: 7 years (2004)

Congo, Democratic Republic of the
total: 9 years
male: 10 years
female: 8 years (2003)

Congo, Republic of the
total: 9 years
male: 10 years
female: 8 years (2003)

Cook Islands
total: 10 years
male: 10 years
female: 10 years (2005)

Costa Rica
total: 12 years
male: 12 years
female: 12 years (2005)

Croatia
total: 14 years
male: 13 years
female: 14 years (2006)

Cuba
total: 16 years
male: 15 years
female: 17 years (2006)

Cyprus
total: 14 years
male: 13 years
female: 14 years (2006)

Czech Republic
total: 15 years
male: 15 years
female: 15 years (2006)

Denmark
total: 17 years
male: 16 years
female: 17 years (2006)

Djibouti
total: 4 years
male: 5 years
female: 4 years (2006)

Dominica
total: 13 years
male: 13 years
female: 14 years (2005)

Dominican Republic
total: 12 years
male: 12 years
female: 13 years (2004)

El Salvador
total: 12 years
male: 12 years
female: 12 years (2006)

Equatorial Guinea
total: 10 years
male: 10 years
female: 9 years (2000)

Eritrea
total: 5 years
male: 6 years
female: 4 years (2004)

Estonia
total: 16 years
male: 15 years
female: 17 years (2006)

Ethiopia
total: 8 years
male: 8 years
female: 7 years (2007)

Fiji
total: 13 years
male: 13 years
female: 13