Honduras
18 years of age for voluntary two-three year military
service (2004)
Hong Kong
18 years of age (2004)
Hungary
18 years of age for voluntary military service; conscription
abolished in June 2004 (2004)
India
16 years of age for voluntary military service (2001)
Indonesia
18 years of age for compulsory and voluntary military
service; conscript service obligation - two years (2002)
Iran
18 years of age for compulsory military service; 16 years of
age for volunteers; soldiers as young as 9 were recruited
extensively during the Iran-Iraq War; conscript service obligation -
18 months (2004)
Iraq
all volunteer force; the Iraqi Government is creating a new
professional Iraqi military force of men aged 18 to 40 to defend
Iraq from external threats and the current insurgency (2006)
Ireland
17 years of age for voluntary military service; enlistees
under the age of 17 can be recruited for specialist positions (2001)
Israel
17 years of age for compulsory (Jews, Druzes) and voluntary
(Christians, Muslims, Circassians) military service; both sexes are
eligible for military service; conscript service obligation - 36
months for men, 21 months for women (2004)
Italy
voluntary military service; conscription abolished January
2005 (2006)