The graph below shows the number of shops that closed and the number of new shops that opened in one country between 2011 and 2018. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

the line chart below compares the

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of

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closures and openings in a country over a period of eight years.

it is clear that

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both of the trends of the numbers of

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closures and openings were downward with the obvious/marked fluctuation among the period shown. And there was a sharp fall/drop in 2015 in the

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of closed stores. As regarded as the

first,

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the

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of the opened store was higher than the closed shops, with the figures close to 8500,

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the latter was at approximately 6500. After that, the closed store amount experienced a sudden decline to 4000 in 2012,which was nearly twice as low as before.

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, in the following two years, it went up steadily to 6000. At the same time, the figure for

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openings fluctuated slightly between 6000 and 7000 from 2011 to 2014. In 2015, the

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of closed shops saw a considerable fall to almost under 1000, followed by a huge increase one year later. Between 2015 and 2018, the opened

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amounts remained relatively stable, at about 4000, but fell to 3000 by 2018.

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, in the

last

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three years, the figure for

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closures levelled off at 5000.