Fig 1.
Sri Lanka’s suicide rate (1989–2015).
(a) Age-standardised suicide rate, average paddy yield*, unemployment rate and alcohol consumption in Sri Lanka (1989–2015). (b) Age-standardised and predicted pesticide, non-pesticide and overall suicide rate (2001–2015)
Table 1.
Rate ratios and change in the number of suicides in years 2011–2015 after the phased bans of paraquat, dimethoate and fenthion relative to those expected based on trend 2001–10.
Table 2.
Sensitivity analysis changing the post-intervention period from 2011–2015 to 2008–2015 and 2012–2015.