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. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, make comparisons where relevant.

The line graph illustrates how many stores were shut down and established, respectively, in the

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between 2011 and 2108.

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, it can be seen that at the beginning of the period, there were more shops which were opening than those that were closing their business,

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in 2018 it was the opposite.

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, there was a decrease in the number of magazines discovered through the

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and a fluctuation in the number of shops that stopped working for the same period. In 2011 there were around 8,5000 openings in comparison with above 6,000 closures.

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of the period, in 2018, more shops were shutting down with numbers just above 5,000 and exactly 3,000 new locations were established the same year. There was a dramatic drop in magazine openings with a difference of 5,500 between 2011 and 2018. In 2012 there was a sharp drop at 4,000 followed by a slight increase in 2014 and

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a fall to 3,000 in 2018. Between 6,000 and 7,000 places stopped their working process in the

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from 2011 to 2014, when a dramatic fall in 2015 resulted in under 1,000 closed shopping objects. In the following

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numbers varied around 5,000.