Self-poisoning is the most frequent method of hospital-presenting self-harm in Sri Lanka and other methods such as cutting are comparatively uncommon. However, the rates of non-fatal self-poisoning over this time period have increased and self-poisoning remains an important cause of morbidity and mortality in the country. Sri Lanka is a middle-income country that has seen a dramatic decrease in suicide rates since the 1990s, coinciding with the banning of the most toxic pesticides in the country. It is estimated that 77% of all suicides occur in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver ( ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made.
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