Task: Table-QA (source dataset: TableBench)

Task: 
You are given a table containing structured data and a natural language question referring to the table. Your goal is to analyze the table and provide an accurate and concise answer based on the given data.

Instructions:
1. Understand the Table: Examine the structure, headers, and data in the table. Identify relevant columns and rows related to the question.
2. Interpret the Question: Determine whether the question requires direct retrieval, aggregation, comparison, sorting, filtering, or inference.
3. Extract the Answer: Use logical reasoning and numerical operations (if necessary) to derive the correct response from the table.
4. Format the Answer: No explanation, return the answer in a structured JSON format: {"answer": <answer>}. If the question cannot be answered due to missing or ambiguous data, return a JSON response with {"answer": null}.

Table:
| economy   |   1980 |   gap from thailand as of 1980 (times) |   1985 |   1990 |   1995 |   2000 |   2005 |   2010 |   2012 |   gap from thailand as of 2012 (times) |   gdp as of 2012 after purchasing power parity (ppp) calculations (usd billions) |   gdp per capita as of 2012 (ppp) |
|:----------|-------:|---------------------------------------:|-------:|-------:|-------:|-------:|-------:|-------:|-------:|---------------------------------------:|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------:|----------------------------------:|
| china     |    205 |                                   0.29 |    290 |    341 |    601 |    945 |   1726 |   4422 |   6076 |                                   1.07 |                                                                         12405.7  |                              9162 |
| hong kong |   5679 |                                   8.16 |   6442 |  13330 |  22939 |  25128 |  25748 |  32429 |  36667 |                                   6.46 |                                                                           369.38 |                             51494 |
| japan     |   9309 |                                  13.38 |  11461 |  25144 |  42523 |  37303 |  35787 |  42916 |  46735 |                                   8.23 |                                                                          4627.89 |                             36265 |
| korea     |   1689 |                                   2.43 |   2414 |   6308 |  11779 |  11347 |  17551 |  20540 |  23113 |                                   4.07 |                                                                          1613.92 |                             32272 |
| malaysia  |   1812 |                                   2.6  |   2026 |   2432 |   4358 |   4030 |   5211 |   8633 |  10304 |                                   1.81 |                                                                           498.48 |                             16922 |
| singapore |   4756 |                                   6.83 |   6754 |  12387 |  23718 |  22791 |  28498 |  44697 |  51162 |                                   9.01 |                                                                           326.51 |                             60410 |
| taiwan    |   2363 |                                   3.4  |   3271 |   8086 |  12865 |  14641 |  16023 |  18488 |  20328 |                                   3.58 |                                                                           903.47 |                             38749 |

Question:
Which economy had the highest GDP per capita as of 2012 (PPP)?


id: fa409ae64ba45abe8542615ebf93a304
qtype: NumericalReasoning
label: Singapore