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

The line graph illustrates the number of shop closures and openings over an 8-year period from the year 2011 to 2018.

Moreover

, the statistic was recorded in one country.

Overall

, both closed and opened shops presented a downward trend ultimately, despite the fact that there were fluctuations during

this

period between 2011 and 2018.

Furthermore

, in the year 2015, the number of closures showed the lowest point in

this

graph.

To begin

with, the number of openings plummeted among the year of 2011 and 2012, roughly declining from 8500 to 4000

then

rising to around 6000 in 2014.

However

, it decreased to 4000 again, represented a general steady change until 2011, and eventually dwindled to 3000 in 2018. Looking at the line of the closing shops in detail, there was a fluctuation between 6500 and 7100 during a two-year period from 2011 to 2013.

Subsequently

, it approximately decreased to 6500.

Next,

it plummeted to around 500 in 2015,

then

surged to 5100 roughly in 2016. Ultimately, it fluctuated between about 5100 and 5000 in the

last

three years.