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 2004 (January 2005)
Qatar
18 years of age for voluntary military service; Land Force's
enlisted personnel are largely nonprofessional foreign nationals
(2005)
Reunion
18 years of age (2004)
Romania
20 years of age for compulsory military service, 18 in
wartime; conscript service obligation - 12 months; 18 years of age
for voluntary military service (2004)