The graph shows the number of shops that closed and the number of new shops that opened in one country between 2011 and 2018.

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the rate of new

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openings versus

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in a specific country over a period of 8 years.

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, it is evident that both

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and openings reduced remarkably from 2011 to 2018.

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places had been opened in 2011 and it went down more than two times by 2012. After three years of an ascending trend, it reached almost 6000 new shopping openings.

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, companies’ willingness to open a new center decreased by 2015. The rate of a new mall starting stayed almost the same with 4000 shops until 2017, and in the following

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it went down by almost 25%.

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were about 6300 in 2011, after a brief reduction in 2012, it increased in 2013 and 2014, with 7100 and 6600 shops, respectively. Interestingly, there was a significant fall

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in 2015, and

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after a substantial rise to almost 5000 locations, the

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phenomenon remained almost stable. In fact, approximately 5100 shops closed in 2018.