Nigeria
18 years of age for voluntary military service (2001)
Norway
18 years of age for compulsory military service; 16 years of
age in wartime; 17 years of age for male volunteers; 18 years of age
for women; 16 years of age for volunteers to the Home Guard;
conscript service obligation - 12 months (2004)
Oman
18 years of age for voluntary military service (2001)
Pakistan
16 years of age for voluntary military service; soldiers
cannot be deployed for combat until age of 18 (2001)
Papua New Guinea
18 years of age (est.); no conscription (2001)
Paraguay
18 years of age for compulsory and voluntary military
service; conscript service obligation - 12 months for Army, 24
months for Navy (2004)
Peru
18 years of age for compulsory military service (1999)
Philippines
18 years of age for compulsory and voluntary military
service (2001)
Poland
17 years of age for compulsory military service after January
1st of the year of 18th birthday; 17 years of age for voluntary
military service; in 2005 Poland plans to shorten the length of
conscript service obligation from 12 to 9 months; by 2008, plans
call for at least 60% of military personnel to be volunteers; only
soldiers who have completed their conscript service are allowed to
volunteer for professional service; as 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 September 2004 (September 2004)