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, and make comparisons where relevant.

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the number of shop closures and openings between 2011 and 2018 in one country. Looking from an

overall

perspective, it can be seen that the numbers fluctuated during

this

period.

However

, it is obvious that opened shops were more than closed ones in the first year

while

in 2018, the number of openings experienced a dramatic fall.

To begin

with,

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line graph, over 6000 closed shops experienced a trough

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by a rise in the first two years and

then

, there was a light decrease in 2014.

However

, The most noticeable change happened in 2015

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the numbers reached a low significantly. After that, there was a considerable rise from under1000,in 2015, to over 5000 in the next year.

Finally

, it continued almost steadily till 2018. Moving to the other graph, it can be distinguished that about 8500 shops were opened in the first year, which is the highest trend,

whereas

it declined to about 4000 in 2012. There was an upward trend in the

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following years, and again a drop occurred in 2015 which remained nearly unchanged until 2017.

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end

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the numbers reached a low to the least ,3000

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