The graph below shows the number ofshops 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 line graph below displays the statistics of shop openings and closures in an unspecified country from 2011 to 2018.

Overall

, there were more closed

shops

than openings throughout the years, except in the years 2011 and 2015.

Moreover

, the closest gap between the

number

of closures and openings can be observed in 2014. There was some degree of fluctuations observed in the direction of shop closures. The

trend

started with slightly over 6,000 closed

shops

in 2011, which

then

showed volatility between 2012 to 2014 before plummeting to only around 500 closed chops in 2015. Afterwards, the

trend

recovered and remained relatively constant until 2018.

On the other hand

, the line graph of the

number

of new

shops

experienced an

overall

declining

trend

. The

number

peaked at 9,000 at the beginning of the

trend

and experienced a plateau of around 4,000 new

shops

opened per year from 2015 to 2017, before reaching the final

number

of 3,000 new shopping establishments in 2018.