itary service (2001)

Finland
18 years of age for voluntary and compulsory military
service (October 2004)

France
17 years of age for voluntary military service; conscription
ended in the 1990s; women serve in non-combat military posts (2001)

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

Gambia, The
18 years of age for voluntary military service; no
conscription (2001)

Georgia
18 to 34 years of age for compulsory and voluntary active
duty military service; conscript service obligation - 18 months
(2005)

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

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 beginning 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, Air Force; 15 months for Navy; women are eligible for
military service (2005)

Guatemala
all male citizens between the ages of 18 and 50 are liable
for military service; conscript service obligation varies from 12 to
24 months (2005)

Guinea
18 years of age for compulsory military service; conscript
service obligation - 24 months (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 two-three year military
service (2004)

Hong Kong
18 years of age (2004)

Hungary
18 years of age for voluntary military service; conscription
abolished in June 2004 (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 - two 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
all volunteer force; the Iraqi Government is creating a new
professional Iraqi military force of men aged 18 to 40 to defend
Iraq from external threats and the current insurgency (2006)

Ireland
17 years of age for voluntary mili