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

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

South Africa
18 years of age for voluntary military service (October
2004)

Spain
20 years of age (2004 est.)

Sri Lanka
18 years of age for voluntary military service (2001)

Sudan
18-30 years of age for compulsory military service; conscript
service obligation - 3 years (August 2004)

Suriname
18 years of age (est.); no conscription

Swaziland
18 years of age for voluntary military service (2001)

Sweden
19 years of age for compulsory military service; conscript
service obligation - 7 to 17 months depending on conscript role;
after completing initial service soldiers have a reserve commitment
until the age of 47 (2004)

Switzerland
19 years of age for compulsory military service; 17
years of age for voluntary military service; conscripts receive 15
weeks of compulsory training, followed by 10 intermittent recalls
for training over the next 22 years (2004)

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

Taiwan
19-40 years of age for military service (being lowered to 35
years of age in July 2005); service obligation 22 months (being
shortened to 18 months in July 2005 and 12 months in 2008) (January
2005)

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

Tanzania
15 years of age for voluntary military service; 18 years of
age for compulsory military service upon graduation from secondary
school; conscript service obligation - 2 years (2004)

Thailand
21 years of age for compulsory military service; males are
registered at 18 years of age; conscript service obligation - 2
years; 18 years of age for voluntary military service (2004)

Togo
18 years of age for voluntary and compulsory military service
(2001)

Tonga
18 years of age (est.) (2004)

Trinidad and Tobago
18 years of age for voluntary military service;
no conscription (2001)

Tunisia
20 years of age for compulsory military service; conscript
service obligation - 12 months; 18 years of age for voluntary
military service (2004)

Turkey
20 years of age (2004 est.)

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

Uganda
18 years