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.

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. It provides a comparison of opened and closed

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in a particular nation during a seven-year period from 2011 to 2018. It is interesting to note that

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the number of opened

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was at a peak of 8500 stores in 2011, after merely one year it halved, reaching less than 4000

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in 2012. After that, it experienced some fluctuations, prior to plunging exponentially to a minimum of 3000 markets in 2018. With regard to the closed ones,

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it was 6400

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in 2011, it reached a peak at more than 7000 in 2013 before sliding away to a low of just 500 stores in 2015. After merely a year the closed

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increased and again surpassed the opened ones at more than 5000

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in 2018

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, the number of closed

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was lower than opened ones at the beginning of the study era, meanwhile, it far outnumbered the number of opened

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at the end

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of the study era.