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. Number of shop closures and openings 2011-2018 Closures - Openings 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

The line graph displays the number of stores that shut down and the number of newly opened shops in a single country from 2011 to 2018.

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, the total of shop openings declined significantly.

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closures

also

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decreased slightly, they remained higher than openings in most years The diagram shows that the amount of newly opened shops started above 8000 and

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count plummeted to approximately 4000. In the following years, it fluctuated between around 4000 and slightly above 6000 until 2015. It relatively remained unchanged at around 4000 until 2017, before showing a decline to 3000 in 2018. Shop closures began at almost 6400,

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fluctuated between 6000 and just over 7000 until 2014. It

then

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dropped sharply to less than 1000 in 2015. After that, it recovered moderately to over 5000 in 2016 and stayed almost the same.

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it went down throughout the period, it was higher than the total number of shop openings.