The graph below shows the number of shops that closed and number of new shops that opened in one country between 2011 and 2018. summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The line graph demonstrates how many

shops

have closed and opened their business in an unknown country between the years of 2011 to 2018.

Overall

, the number of

shops

that closed in

this

7-year timespan has fallen drastically.

On the contrary

, in the case of the openings, the

numbers

stayed moderately the same despite all the fluctuations experienced throughout the survey period. In 2011, around 8500

shops

had concluded their businesses which remains the highest record of closure in

this

7-year period which was followed by a dramatic fall into 4000

shops

after only one year. Afterwards, the

numbers

soared to over 6000 in 2014 which fell right back to 4000 by 2015. These closure schemes levelled out temporarily from 2015 to a year after which was immediately followed by a slight

raise

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in

numbers

. These closures reached the bottom in 2018 with only 3000 being closed.

On the other hand

, with the starting point of 6500, opening

numbers

had minor fluctuations from 2011 to 2014 which

then

experienced a major downfall from 6500 to just a little above zero from 2014 to 2015.

However

, openings started to increase by approximately 4500 in number by 2016, leaving it at 5000 opened

shops

. Right

after

this

increase,

numbers

slightly plateaued from 2016 until the end of the survey.