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.

The line graph illustrates the

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of store closures and openings in a particular nation from 2011 to 2018.

Overall

, the statistic of shops that closed declined during

this

period. The

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for shop openings fluctuated between 2011 and 2018.

To begin

with, the number of shop closures dropped dramatically from around 8,500 in 2011 to slightly lower than 4,000 in 2012, followed by a 2-year increasing trend to over 6,000 in 2014.

Then

, the amount of shops that closed declined to the

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in 2012 and kept at

this

level for 2 years, before decreasing to approximately 3,000 in 2018. The total number of store openings rose from around 6,400 to slightly more than 7,000 in 2013, followed by a significant reduction to lower than 1,000 in 2015.

However

, the

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then

increased drastically to more than 5,000 in 2016, and the

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kept at

this

level until 2018.