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 comparions where relevant.

The line chart given depicts the statistics of stores' closures and openings in a particular country between 2011 and 2018. Focusing on the new store addition, there were more than 8,000 stores run in 2011, which was

also

its climax rate. The figure

then

experienced a rapid drop by halves in 2012 before moderately reaching its second peak at nearly 6,000 openings in 2014.

Thereafter

, the slope began to decline and flattened during the rest of the periods. Moving on to the tenants who stopped their operations, the data went up and down during the first four years of the report.

However

, in 2015, there was a significant decrease, hitting rock bottom, with less than 1,000 merchants closed. After that, there was a dramatic bounceback to 5000 closures in 2016.

Finally

, the rate of shop termination stabilized until the end of the report.

Overall

, it is obvious that the shop openings peaked at the beginning of the report and

further

fluctuated during the rest of the periods.

On the other hand

, 2015 became the term with the lowest rate of store termination.