Table 3.

Rate ratios and change in the number of pesticide suicides and total unnatural deaths in years 2001–14, after ban of WHO class I pesticides, relative to those expected based on pre-band trend 1996–2000

	Pesticide suicides			Unnatural deaths
	Rate ratio (95% CI)	P-values	Change in number of suicides (95% CI)	Rate ratio (95% CI)	P-values	Change in number of deaths (95% CI)
Post ban yearsa
2001	1.00 (0.98, 1.03)	0.79	28 (−179, 229)	1.00 (0.98, 1.02)	0.93	−21 (−471, 419)
2002	0.88 (0.85, 0.91)	<0.001	−919 (−1198, −649)	0.87 (0.85, 0.90)	<0.001	−2421 (−3039, −1823)
2003	0.76 (0.72, 0.79)	<0.001	−1938 (−2297, −1595)	0.76 (0.73, 0.79)	<0.001	−4764 (−5571, −3988)
2004	0.71 (0.68, 0.75)	<0.001	−2277 (−2719, −1858)	0.73 (0.70, 0.77)	<0.001	−5379 (−6391, −4416)
2005	0.75 (0.70, 0.80)	<0.001	−2008 (−2536, −1513)	0.73 (0.69, 0.77)	<0.001	−5624 (−6852, −4465)
2006	0.77 (0.72, 0.83)	<0.001	−1830 (−2444, −1258)	0.70 (0.66, 0.75)	<0.001	−6236 (−7690, −4876)
2007	0.79 (0.72, 0.86)	<0.001	−1714 (−2417, −1067)	0.76 (0.71, 0.82)	<0.001	−5025 (−6715, −3460)
2008	0.73 (0.66, 0.80)	<0.001	−2196 (−2988, −1475)	0.75 (0.69, 0.82)	<0.001	−5358 (−7291, −3583)
2009	0.66 (0.60, 0.73)	<0.001	−2721 (−3603, −1926)	0.70 (0.64, 0.77)	<0.001	−6624 (−8811, −4634)
2010	0.62 (0.55, 0.69)	<0.001	−3078 (−4052, −2209)	0.70 (0.63, 0.77)	<0.001	−6738 (−9191, −4529)
2011	0.56 (0.50, 0.64)	<0.001	−3526 (−4593, −2583)	0.68 (0.60, 0.76)	<0.001	−7320 (−10048, −4885)
2012	0.52 (0.45, 0.60)	<0.001	−3877 (−5039, −2861)	0.70 (0.62, 0.79)	<0.001	−6899 (−9915, −4233)
2013	0.46 (0.40, 0.53)	<0.001	−4382 (−5640, −3293)	0.69 (0.61, 0.79)	<0.001	−7162 (−10478, −4258)
2014	0.43 (0.37, 0.50)	<0.001	−4605 (−5961, −3443)	0.70 (0.61, 0.81)	<0.001	−7071 (−10698, −3924)

^aCompared with pre-ban trend 1996–2000.