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. Write at least 150words.

The line graph compares the number of openings and closures of

shops

, in an unknown country, between 2011 and 2018.

Overall

, the numbers of both opened and closed

shops

declined over a seven-year period.

However

,

at the end

of the period, more

shops

were closed than the

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for

opened

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ones, which was the opposite at the starting point. In 2011, the

figure

for opened ventures was at

the

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peak, at about 8500, which 2000

shops

higher than that of closing of

shops

.

However

, in the following year, the

figure

for closures fell by over half from its initial value,

although

it climbed up to 6000, in the next two years. When considering the number of

shops

that shut down, the

figure

fluctuated within the range of 6000 and 7000 up until 2014. In 2015, only about 500

shops

closed;

however

,

this

number was tenfold in 2016. In the next two years, about 5000

shops

closed annually. Approximately 4000

shops

were newly opened in 2015, and the

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stayed constant until 2017, and eventually dropped to 3000, in the year 2018.