New Delhi, Feb. 14: India tops the world in the number of premature deaths from air pollution linked to ozone and has also outpaced China in the number of lives lost from tiny inhalable particles, a report released today said. The State of Global Air 2017 report has estimated that India’s ozone deaths rose at a rate of nearly 148 per cent over the past two decades – from 43,500 in 1990 to 1.07 lakh in 2015.