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.

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line graph illustrates the amount of stores that closed and opened in the same country from 2011 to 2018.

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, those two kinds of numbers are both notional decreased from

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to the end of the account. Looking more closely at the figure, the sum of openings is usually lower than the closures, except sometimes the situation was reversed, like there

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around 2,000 gaps in 2011,

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and approx

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3,500

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in 2015. In more detail, the

number

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of closures shops was around 6,000 from 7,000 in 2011 to 2018, except

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dramatically down to only 500 in 2015. In terms of the

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of opening

store

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stores

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, the highest point was in 2011,

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quickly decreased to 4,000 in the next year.

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increased significantly to about one thousand next two, but still decreased

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and lost

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the same

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again,

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the lowest time was just the

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of three thousand in 2018.