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 chart compares the quantities of closures and openings of one country's
shops
from 2011 to 2018.
Overall
, a downward trend was seen in the number of shops
that closed and opened eventually. It is clearly seen that in most of the years, more shops
were shut down than the newly built ones.
In 2011, there were over 8500 new shops
coming online while
the figure of closed shops
was significantly lower. But in the next 3 years, more businesses went disrupted. The worsening situation saw a reverse in 2015 when closures dropped by 95% from the previous year to bottom out at about 500 cases, while
a remarkably higher quantity of shops
were
established.
Throughout the Change the verb form
was
last
three years, shop openings remained stable till 2018 when it decreased by one-third to 3000. On the other hand
, an upward leap in the figure of closures was seen in 2016, increasing by 10 times from 2015; however
, the number stayed quite stable reaching slightly above 5000 in 2018.Submitted by lilei9532 on
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