The picture illustrates the amount of shops that closed and opened since 2011 until 2018. As we can see, the overall patterns remained the same between the closures and openings numbers, with little differences. Both closures and openings numbers were decreased in 2012 and 2015. However, the lowest number was by the closures in 2015, with only 1000 at the time. This amount was an extreme change from other years which showed the range of closures numbers from 5000-7200, which means 4000-6200 closures different from the other years.