Life expectancy has risen to 78 years by 2021 from 44 in 1960 and projected to exceed 80 by 2050 while the pension system will run out of money by 2035
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A car bomb killed several Jordanian soldiers and wounded others outside a refugee camp near the Syrian border on Tuesday, the army said.
"At 5:30 am (0230 GMT) a car bomb exploded in the Rukban district opposite the Syrian refugee camp, killing or wounding several Jordanian soldiers," a short statement said.
The army said that it had destroyed several "enemy" vehicles at the border, but said it would give no further details until later in the day.
The attack came in the remote desert northeast of the kingdom where tens of thousands of Syrian refugees have sought shelter in a makeshift camp just across an informal border crossing between the two countries.
A flare-up in the five-year civil war in Syria sparked a new influx of refugees in the area last month, with nearly 5,500 arriving at Rukban within days in early May.
Jordan says it hosting nearly 1.4 million refugees, of whom 630,000 are registered with the United Nations.
Jordanian authorities have kept hundreds of refugees camped in no-man's land outside Rukban waiting for screening, out of fear that they are involved with the Daesh group which controls swathes of eastern Syria and neighbouring Iraq.
Jordan is a leading member of the US-led coalition fighting Daesh and has been the target of militant attacks in the past.
Jordan has carried out air strikes against Daesh in Syria since 2014.
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