The graph below shos 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 comparizons where relevant.

The graph illustrates the patterns of shop closures and

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in a particular country between 2011 and 2018.

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, it is evident that the

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of closed retail businesses surpassed the new ones throughout most of the given period, except for the years 2011 and 2015. In 2011, 8,500 shops started business,

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6,200 shops were closed. For the next two years, closures outstripped

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, but their declining trend intersected with the upward trend in the

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of new stores right after 2014; the 2014 figure for closed stores dropped to approximately 6,500,

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of new stores climbed to just above 6,000. One of the most dramatic changes occurred in 2015, with the figure for closures plummeting from 6,500 to 500,

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reduced to only 4,000. In 2016,

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, the

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of closed shops rebounded, recovered to just beyond 5,000, and remained relatively unchanged for the subsequent two years. Meanwhile,

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decreased to 3,000 in 2018, almost one-third of its 2011 figure.