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.

The given line graph illustrates how many shopping centres are not working anymore and how many of them are still open to the public in a specific area in the period of time from the

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2011 until 2018.

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, it is noticeable that the data had a plateau and did not remain the same, as most of the

shops

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were open in 2011,

however

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, by the end of 2018, they were mostly closed.

To begin

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with, almost 9000

shops

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were open and provided service for customers,

however

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,

this

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number significantly dropped and reached 4000 in the next

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.

Nonetheless

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, it rose by 2000, as 6000

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were open until 2014.

Then

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, the number went back to its previous data with only 4000 to be opened until 2017 and

finally

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stopped by the number of 3000 in the

last

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year

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. Closures,

on the other hand

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, were for 6500

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but increased and reached 7000 after two years

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. The data,

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, has experienced a dramatically downward trend, as less than 1000 places were closed by the

year

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2015.

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, in 2018, 5000 of all were eventually closed.