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)