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.

The line graph displays the total

number

of

shops

opened and closed in an unknown country over the span of 7 years.

Overall

, the highest

number

of

shops

opened was in the

year

2011,

while

, in the same

year

around 6500

shops

were closed.

Although

, in 2014 the

number

of closures and

openings

of

shops

were almost similar. In the initial

year

of 2011, around 9,000 new

shops

were introduced, but in 2012 the

number

of new

openings

fell below 4,000.

However

, after two years the

number

of

shops

increased by 2,000 by the end of 2014 and after that, in 2015 a similar trend of 2012 was experienced in the

openings

. In 2015, the

number

of new

openings

started to fall by 4,000 and

this

number

stayed the same still 2017.

However

, the data on shop closures is very different from

openings

, other than in the

year

2014. More than 6,000

shops

were closed in 2011 and

this

trend continued with minimal fluctuations till 2014, by the

year

2015 leaving less than 1,000

shops

closed.

However

, by the end of 2018, the

number

of

shops

closed was more than the

openings

of new

shops

.