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

number

of shop closures and openings in a particular country from 2011 to 2018.

Overall

, it can be seen that both figures showed a fluctuating change over a specific period of time.

However

, closing shops outpaced opening shops in all years except for 2011 and 2015. The sum of store closures experienced an upward trend at the finish point,

while

the store opening numbers saw the opposite direction. In 2011, the

number

of boutiques that closed stood at over 6,000 and

also

fluctuated between roughly 6,000 and 7,000 boutiques during the first two years of the period, reaching a peak of just over 7,000. The

number

of outlets that closed began to steadily fall to under 7,000 in 2014;

thereafter

, it began to suddenly decline, reaching a low of under 1,000 outlets in 2015.

Furthermore

, it began to rapidly rise to just over 5,000 in the following year and remained steady at

this

level from 2016 to 2018.

On the other hand

, the

number

of stores that opened stood at above 8,000 in 2011, which resulted in 2,000 net openings. It began to dramatically fall, reaching a low of just below 4,000 in 2012. Openings made a rebound, reaching nearly the same level as closings in 2014 at just over 6,000, after which the

number

of opened stores dropped again to its 2012 level in 2015, where it remained constant until it fell

further

to an all-time low at 3,000 in 2018.