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 given line chart illustrates the information regarding

closures

and

openings

of

shops

in a specific country in

numbers

over a 7-

year

period. As an overview, in

this

country, the lowest

number

of

closures

happened in 2015.

Conversely

, the closure

numbers

noticeably experienced a significant rise a

year

after that.

Also

, the

openings

figure shows its highest

number

at the beginning of the time period. The

number

of

openings

also

witnessed its lowest

number

a

year

after its highest

number

. As it can be seen,

however

, both

closures

and

openings

numbers

decreased for a

year

, the decline that happened for

openings

was more noticeable than

closures

.

This

led to the opening of

shops

number

decreased to over 4000 in 2012.

However

, both of these figures show after 2 years gained near equivalent

numbers

in 2014 with approximately 6100 and 6500 for

closures

and

openings

respectively.

On the other hand

, the

number

of

shops

that closed and opened experienced significant change from 2014 to 2016.

Consequently

, the

number

of

closures

fell in 2015 and gained below 1000;

therefore

, the

number

of

openings

overtook

closures

with 4,000

shops

in that

year

.

While

closure

numbers

exponentially rose in 2016 to over 5000, the

number

of

openings

remained steady.

However

, both described figures show negligible change in 2017, the

number

of

openings

decreased to 3000.

In contrast

, the

number

of

closures

was insignificant increasing to 2018.