The garaph below shows the number of shops that closed and the number of new shops that opened in one country between 2011 and 2010. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features

The given line graph compares how many shops stopped and started work in one country from 2011 to 2018.

Overall

, at

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first,

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the

number

of outlets opening was higher than

closures

;

however

, it was overtaken by the

closures

.

Also

, there was a noticeable fall in the proportion of opening shops with slight fluctuations,

while

the

number

of

closures

had a huge decrease, which was followed by

rise

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a rise

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. Looking at the details, in the first year, the index of closed stores was around 6500, after which it increased slightly to approximately 7000 in 2013. Afterwards, having a rapid decrease

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6500 in 2015, the

number

of

closures

began to improve to roughly 5000 in 2016 and remained unchanged between 2016 and 2018. As for the

number

of outlet openings, the figure was originally at nearly 8500. The

number

of shops that started to work went down gradually reaching 5000, before growing to about 6000 in 2014 and remained stable until 2017.

Finally

, the figure fell to

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of 3000 in 2018.