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

year

2011 until 2018.

Overall

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

shops

were open in 2011,

however

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

To begin

with, almost 9000

shops

were open and provided service for customers,

however

,

this

number significantly dropped and reached 4000 in the next

year

.

Nonetheless

, it rose by 2000, as 6000

shops

were open until 2014.

Then

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

finally

stopped by the number of 3000 in the

last

year

. Closures,

on the other hand

, were for 6500

shops

but increased and reached 7000 after two years

afterward

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. The data,

although

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

year

2015.

However

, in 2018, 5000 of all were eventually closed.