The graph below shows the number of shops that closed and the number of new shops that opened in one country betweeen 2011 and 2018. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the mian feartures, and make comparisons where relevant.

The line graph illustrates the change

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the number of

shops

over

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period.

Overall

,

it is clear that

the number of

shops

in 7 years decreased or downtrend. At the beginning of the year, shop openings accounted for 8,500

while

closures were approximately only 6,400. In 2012, the number of opening

shops

decreased significantly around 50% from the beginning

while

closure

shops

only slightly decreased by almost 400.

Moreover

, from 2012 to 2014, both of them

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increased and almost similar amount. Looking at the figures,

shops

that will be open for only around 700 in 2015 and

this

was a significant change and reached the bottom for along the periods. Following that, it was increased 5 times in 2016 and only slightly changed until the end of the period. Closing

shops

decreased around 30% from 2014 to 2015 and remained the same until 2017.

At the end

of the period, only 3,000

shops

were closed.