of April 2004 women are only
allowed to serve as officers and non-commissioned officers (April
2004)

Portugal
18 years of age for voluntary military service; compulsory
military service was ended in 2004 (January 2005)

Qatar
18 years of age for voluntary military service; Land Force's
enlisted personnel are largely nonprofessional foreign nationals
(2005)

Reunion
18 years of age (2004)

Romania
20 years of age for compulsory military service, 18 in
wartime; conscript service obligation - 12 months; 18 years of age
for voluntary military service (2004)

Russia
18-27 years of age; males are registered for the draft at 17
years of age; 200,000 conscripts were inducted into the armed forces
in 2003; length of compulsory military service is 2 years; plans as
of August 2004 call for reduction in mandatory service to 1 year by
2008; 2003 planning calls for volunteer servicemen to compose 70% of
armed forces by 2010, with the remaining servicemen consisting of
conscripts (August 2004)

Rwanda
16 years of age for voluntary military service; no
conscription (2001)

Saint Kitts and Nevis
18 years of age (est.) (2004)

Sao Tome and Principe
18 years of age (est.) (2004)

Saudi Arabia
18 years of age (est.); no conscription (2004)

Senegal
18 years of age for compulsory and voluntary military
service; conscript service obligation - 2 years (2004)

Serbia and Montenegro
19 years of age (nine months compulsory
service) (2004)

Seychelles
18 years of age (est.); no conscription (2001)

Sierra Leone
18 years of age (est.); no conscription (2001)

Singapore
18 years of age for compulsory military service; 16 years
of age for volunteers; conscript service obligation reduced to 24
months beginning December 2004 (December 2004)

Slovakia
complete transition to an all-volunteer professional force
is planned for 1 January 2007; 82% of Slovak armed forces were
volunteers as of January 2005; volunteers include women, with
minimum age of 17 years; 18 years of age for compulsory military
service (January 2005)

Slovenia
17 years of age for voluntary military service;
conscription abolished in 2003 (2004)

Somalia
18 years of age (est.) (2001)

South Africa
18 years of age for voluntary military service; women
have a long history of military service in non-combat roles - dating
back to World War I (2004)

Spain
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