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.

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line chart depicts the

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of

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that were launched and terminated between 2011 and 2018 in one unknown country.

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the action of closing

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had decreased by 1000

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between 2011 and 2018,

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the act of opening

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had sunk from 8700 in 2011 to 3000 only in 2018.

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the given graph, we can see a huge fluctuation in the opening of

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. If we go across the years, it is obvious that in 2012, there was a great drop in the number of new

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.

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, those new

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kept increasing in numbers during the next 3 years (from 2012 to 2014). in 2015 there was a simple dipped by 2000 new

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.

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was not the case for the next 3 years, the quantity of new

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witnessed some kind of stabilization until 2017.

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, the quantity of out-of-business

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had witnessed the same kind of

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fractionation. We can notice that 2015 was a year of thriving, less than 500

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were closed for good.

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, in 2014 the sum of opined and closed

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was equal.

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,

this

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figure illustrates the quantity and the status of

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in one town. It is noticeable that 2015 is the year where

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country had less of

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closing and more opening.