Table 1.

Estimates and plausible ranges of pesticide suicides in each of WHO's six regions

Region	Stratum	Population (millions) (source: [1])	Total suicides (source: [1])	Pesticide suicides (% of all suicides)	Plausible range of pesticide suicides	Sources
Africa	D	311	15,000	4,950 (33%)	3,300 to 6, 900†	[22]
	E	361	19,000	2,850 (15%)	1,900 to 15,010	[23] [24] [25]
Sub-total (Africa)			34,000	7,800 (22.9%)	5,200 to 21,910
The Americas	A	336	35,000	25 (0.07%)	14 to 35†	[26]
	B	445	26,000	2,860 (11%)	1,820 to 8,060	[27] [33] [36]
	D	74	2,000	220 (11%)	140 to 620	[27] [33] [36]
Sub-total (the Americas)			63,000	3,105 (4.9%)	1,974 to 8,715
Eastern Mediterranean	B	143	9,000	629 (7%)	501 to 772†	[38]
	D	360	25,000	5,000 (20%)	4,000 to 6,250†	[41]
Sub-total (E. Med.)			34,000	5,629 (16.5%)	4,501 to 7,022
Europe	A	415	48,000	2,400 (5%)	14 to 4,800	[46] [47] [48] [50]
	B	223	23,000	920 (4%)	18 to 1,610	[52] [53] [54] [55] [56]
	C	240	92,000	2,760 (3%)	1,840 to 2,760†	[57]
Sub-total (Europe)			163,000	6,080 (3.7%)	1,872 to 9,170
South East Asia	B	298	37,000	9,250 (25%)	5,920 to 19,980	[62] [63]
	D	1,293	209,000	41,800 (20%)	41,800 to 62,700	Table 2 and [58]
Sub-total (SE Asia)			246,000	51,050 (20.7%)	47,720 to 82,680
Western Pacific	A	155	35,000	1,050 (3%)	1,050 to 1,050	[68]
	B	1,562	296,000	183,520 (62%)	171,680 to 195,360	[70]
Sub-total (W Pacific)			331,000	184,570 (55.8%)	172,730 to 196,410
Overall Total		6,225	873,000	258,234 (30%)	233,997 (27%) to 325,907 (37%)
Total including more realistic estimate for total and pesticide suicides in SE Asia – D (n = 504,800)*			1,181,200	371,594 (31%)	347,357 (29%) to 439,267 (37%)

*Assuming 30% of these are due to pesticides.

^†Plausible range based on 95% confidence intervals around the proportion of suicides due to pesticides in the country whose data were used for estimate in this stratum