The graph below shows the number of shops that closed and the number of new shops that opended in one country between 2011 and 2018.

The line graph demonstrates the

closures

and

openings

of the shop in a nation from 2011 to 2018.

Overall

, the number of

closures

overtakes that of

openings

at the end

. There is a huge drop

of

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new

shops

in one year before the

recover

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. Interestingly, the trend

also

shows that the

openings

seems

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to decrease continuously. In 2011, the

openings

were at their peak at over 8,000

shops

.

However

, it dropped to 4,000 a year later.

This

bounced back to 6,000 and down to 4,000 before remaining stable at around 4,000 until 2017. In

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2018, the number of

openings

fell to

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lowest point at 3,000. For the

closures

,

it is clear that

the

shops

closed in 2011 started at around 6,500

shops

and fluctuated between 6,000 and 7,000 before coming down to 6,500 in 2014. It is the alarming drop, which took place in 2015 as the

closures

came to about 500

shops

before it skyrocketed to a little above 5,000 where it remained stable until 2018.