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.

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were closed and opened in a particular country from 2011 to 2018. Over the period shown, the

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of newly opened

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went down dramatically,

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the

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of shop closures dropped slightly. Nearly 8,500

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were opened in 2011,

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in 2012, there was only half of that

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of shutdown

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began at around 6,200 in 2011 and went down to less than 6,000 in 2012. In 2013, the

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of store closures reached a peak at over 7,000. 2015 saw a rapid fall in the

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of shut-down

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from around 6,500 to roughly 500. From 2015 to 2017, the

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of newly opened stores remained unchanged at around 4,000

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and dropped to 3,000 for the next year.

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, the

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of closed stores soared to more than 5,000 in 2016

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and

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fluctuated

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5,000 for the next two year