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

Germany
18 years of age (conscripts serve a nine-month tour of
compulsory military service) (2004 est.)

Ghana
18 years of age for compulsory and volunteer military service
(2001)

Greece
18 years of age for compulsory military service; during
wartime the law allows for recruitment after reaching January of the
year of inductee's 18th birthday, thus including 17 year olds; 17
years of age for volunteers; conscript service obligation - 12
months for the Army, 14 months for the Air Force, 15 months for the
Navy (April 2003)

Guatemala
18 years of age for compulsory and voluntary military
service; conscript service obligation - 30 months (2004)

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

Guinea-Bissau
18 years of age for compulsory military service (2001)

Haiti
18 years of age for voluntary recruitment into the police
force (2001)

Honduras
18 years of age for voluntary 2-3 year military service
(2004)

Hong Kong
18 years of age (2004 est.)

Hungary
18 years of age for voluntary military service; conscription
abolished in June 2004 (June 2004)

India
16 years of age for voluntary military service (2001)

Indonesia
18 years of age for compulsory and voluntary military
service; conscript service obligation - 2 years (2002)

Iran
18 years of age for compulsory military service; 16 years of
age for volunteers; soldiers as young as 9 were recruited
extensively during the Iran-Iraq war; conscript service obligation -
18 months (2004)

Iraq
18 years of age; the Iraqi Interim Government is creating a new
professional Iraqi military force of men aged 18 to 40 to defend
Iraqi territory from external threats (September 2004)

Ireland
17 years of age for voluntary military service; enlistees
under the age of 17 can be recruited for specialist positions (2001)

Israel
17 years of age for compulsory (Jews, Druzes) and voluntary
(Christians, Muslims, Circassians) military service; both sexes are
eligible for military service; conscript service obligation - 36
months for men, 21 months for women (2004)

Italy
18 years of age (2004 est.)

Jamaica
18 years of age for voluntary military service; younger
recruits may be conscripted with parental consen