The graph below Shows the number of shops that closed and the number of new shops that opened in one country between 2011 and two 2018. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparison where relevant.

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of shop

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and

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in one country in the period from 2011 to 2018.

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, it can be seen from the graph that the

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of shops that are closed is not stable at all, but the opening count is certainly having not so obvious changes throughout the period,

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mostly have a higher count, and

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kept the

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of them changing minorly.

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, from year 2011 to 2014, stores are closing with a relatively stable

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, hovering from 6,000 to 7,000 closing. But after 2014, it recorded a decrease that the

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actually met the lowest point, almost reaching only 1,000, a

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that

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didn't reach anytime.

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, after

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a decrease, it came back with it very high total of

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in 2016 and remained stable at a

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of around 5,000 closings. Moving on to

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, the information from the graph shows that

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were having a start which decreased in the year from 2011 to 2012, making the statistic of opened shops drop from approximately 8,500 to 4,000. After that, they have a minor increase from 2012 to 2014, having the

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increase from 4,000 to 6,000,

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again, the count is down to 4,000 in 2015 and from that time, opened shops keep changing stability.