Ecuador
20 years of age for conscript military service; 12-month
service obligation (2004)
Egypt
18 years of age for conscript military service; three-year
service obligation (2001)
El Salvador
18 years of age for compulsory military service, with
12-month service obligation; 16 years of age for volunteers (2002)
Equatorial Guinea
18 years of age (est.) (2004)
Eritrea
18 years of age for voluntary and compulsory military
service; conscript service obligation - 16 months (2004)
Estonia
compulsory military service for men between 19 and 28;
conscription lasts 11 months for junior NCOs and reserve platoon
leaders; reserve officers and designated specialists have a
different conscript service obligation; Estonia has committed to
retaining conscription for men up to 2010 and, unlike Latvia and
Lithuania, has no plan to transition to a contract armed forces; 17
years of age for volunteers; reserve commitment up to the age of 60
(2006)
Ethiopia
18 years of age for compulsory and voluntary military
service (2001)
Fiji
18 years of age for voluntary military 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)