How many premature deaths from pesticide suicide have occurred since the agricultural Green Revolution?

Figures & data

Table 1. Estimated pesticide deaths from 1960 to 2018 (using the Gunnel et al. [28] and Mew et al. [29] estimates, and 1995 vs 2002 for the end of the stable phase).

Period	Pesticide deaths per year		Total deaths for the given period		Cumulative deaths
Change point	1995	2002	1995	2002	1995	2002
1960–1984	186,000	186,000	4,464,000	4,464,000	4,278,000	4,278,000
1985–1995	372,000		4,092,000		8,556,000
1985–2002		372,000		6,696,000		11,160,000
1996–2014	270,000		5,130,000		13,686,000
2003–2014		270,000		3,240,000		14,400,000
2015–2018	146,526		586,105		14,272,105
2015–2018		134,000		536,000		14,936,000

The figures in Bold at the bottom right are totals for 1960–2018 using 1995 or 2002 for the end of the stable phase.

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