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 illustrates the changing

number

of shops that were newly opened and bankrupted in a specific country in a seven-year span.

Overall

, it is noticeable that despite all the fluctuations, the opened merchants showed a more stable pattern,

while

the closed ones exhibited the opposite.

According to

the data, the

number

of new merchants had a more stable pattern than the closed ones. Having started at about 8.500

stores

in 2011, the

number

of kiosks fell dramatically to merely 4.000

stores

in 2012 before gradually increasing to 6,000

stores

in 2014, slightly lower than the

number

of bankrupted kiosks in that year.

Then

it decreased to 4,000 and remained stable for the next two years, from 2015 to 2017, and declined to only 3,000 in 2018. Turning to the closed

stores

, it captured a more erratic trend. Starting at just above 6,000

stores

, the

number

of

stores

rose to just above 7,000

stores

in 2013 before plunging to around 500

stores

in 2015, making it the lowest

number

of merchants

among

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all years.

Furthermore

, it increased dramatically to above 5,000

stores

in 2016 and levelled off for the following two years. (200 words)