The graph below shows the number of shops that closed and the number of new shop 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 depicts the

number

of shops which closed or newly opened in a country during the period between 2011 and 2018.

Overall

,

it is clear that

both closures and openings had a downward trend in the period

as well as

the total

number

of shops in the country. There was a significant decline in the new stores in the 7 years. The figure, which accounted for approximately 8500 in 2011 got less than half in one year before recovering to around 6000 in 2014. With the drop to about 4000 in 2015, the

number

surpassed the

number

of closed stores. From 2015,

this

steadily remained after which it decreased by 1000 in the

last

year to reach 3000.

Furthermore

, the

number

of closed shops

also

experienced a decreasing trend.

This

started at approximately 6300 in 2011 and

then

slightly declined to just 6000 in 2012 before rocketing to over 7000 which means was the biggest in the period. Even though

this

noticeably plummeted to less than 1000 in 2015, it reached a high of about 5000

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the next year.

This

figure stabilized in the

last

two years.