| Country | Compulsory military training in schools from: | Optional school programme towards obligatory military service from: | Admission to military training establishments from: | Volunteers legally accepted for training from: | become fully incorporated in active units | Performance of military service optional from: | Registration for obligatory military service | Call-up for obligatory military service | Liability until: | Reserve duties until: |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Slovakia | 15 | 18 | 18 S | 30 | 55 | |||||
| Slovenia | 16/17 | 18 | 19 | 27 | ||||||
| Spain | 18 | 19 S | ||||||||
| Sudan | 18 | 33 | ||||||||
| Sweden | 17/18 | 24 | 47 | |||||||
| Switzerland | 18/19 | 19/20 | 26 | 34 | ||||||
| Syria | 17/18 | 18/19 | 45 | |||||||
| Taiwan | 15 | 18/19 | 40 | |||||||
| Tajikistan | 18 | 18 | 27 | |||||||
| Thailand | 14 | 18 | 20 | |||||||
| Trinidad and Tobago | 16 | 16 | ||||||||
| Tunisia | 18 | 18 | 20 | |||||||
| Turkey | 15 | 18? | 19/20 | 40 | ||||||
| Turkmenistan | 16 | 17 | 30 | |||||||
| Uganda | 18 | |||||||||
| Ukraine | 17 | 17 | 18 | 25 | 40 | |||||
| United Arab Emirates | 15 | 18 | ||||||||
| UK | 16 | 16 | ||||||||
| USA | 16 | 18 | 19/20 | 26 | ||||||
| Uzbekistan | 14 | 18 | ||||||||
| Venezuela | 15 | 18 | 50 | |||||||
| Viet Nam | nk | 16/17 | 18 | 27 | 45 | |||||
| Yemen | 18 | 30 | ||||||||
| Zimbabwe | 16 | 18 | 18 |
Notes:
- f. United Arab Emirates. Age for officers and women only; others not known.
General Explanations
- S obligatory military service referred to currently suspended
- nk precise age not known
- 16/17 format used when the legislation refers to a calendar year of the seventeenth birthday or in similar circumstances.
- <18 specific rules (usually of parental permission) apply the age stated without their being an explicitly stated minimum age
- ? evidence unclear or ambiguous