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. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant

A glance at the line graph delineates information about the commensurability of the number of shop closures and

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in an unnamed country from 2011 to 2018.

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, it can be explicitly perceived that the number of closures was overwhelming with respect to

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between the years 2012-2014 and 2016-2018.

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, the highest

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belonged to the rudimentary year of the period,

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the closures were staggeringly minimized in 2015. Declining from approximately 8500 in 2011 to just under 4000 in 2012, the opening values

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encountered exponential growth until 2014, with virtually 6000.

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was followed by 2000 lower

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in the next two years. After a little-by-little enhancement in 2017, some 4100 numbers, the

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reached 3000

at the end

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of the period. Looking into the closure times, the number of shops was under that of

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in 2011 around 6500. There was a fluctuation twofold years later, somewhere in the vicinity of 6500. Afterwards, the shops closed in the year 2015, accompanied by a minimum of almost 500. Over a similar vacillation during a three-year period, the closed shops were allocated a particular proportion, taking 5150.