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.

The chart illustrates the change in the

number

of

shops

that closed and opened in a country throughout the

period

between 2011 and 2018. The amounts of

shops closure

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shop closures

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went slightly down throughout the

period

, starting from more than 6,500

since

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2011 to around 5,000 in 2018. The figures fluctuated with a peak at more than 7,000 in 2013,

however

, after that, the

number

went down and plummetted to

lowest

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at 800 in 2015. The opening

shops

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number

decreased from the highest at 8,500

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to less than 4,000 in the following year, but the figure climbed up to around 6,000 in 2014, reaching the same

number

of shop

closure

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closures

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the year. After that, the

opening

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number of opening

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shops

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amount dropped again, ending at 3,000 in 2018,

although

the

number

of opening

stores

remained steady for 2 years

during

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2015 to 2017 at around 4,000.

Overall

,

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of

stores

opening and closing both dropped during the

period

from 2011 to 2018, where the closing

stores

were more than opening

stores

in most years, except for the

period

from 2014 to 2016.