You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. 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 150 words.

The line graph illustrates the trend of opening new and closing existing

shops

from 2011 to 2018.

Overall

, it is evident from the graph that the trend of opening and closing dropped during the period of time from what they started. The

shops

which

are

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closed in 2011 were above 6000, continued to increase just above 7000 in 2013 with

small

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a small

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dip in 2012 and again there was a slight

drop

in 2014 accounting an approximate count of 6500.

In contrast

,

number

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a number

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of

opening

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new

shops

started at nearly 8500 in 2011,

then

there was a significant

drop

reaching 4000 in 2012. Following 2 years there was a stable increase reaching above 6000. During the next 4 years, there was a sudden

drop

and rise in the closing of

shops

reaching as low as below 1000 in 2015 and spiking above 5000 in 2016.

Also

, opening new

shops

recorded a

drop

of nearly 2000 in 2015 but, it remained unchanged over the following years till 2017 and dropped by 1000 to settle at 3000 in 2018. In a similar fashion from 2016 to

2018

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2018,

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the closing remained stable at

and

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around 5000.