The provided line graph depicts the amount of shops which closed and those that appeared in a country between 2011 and 2018.
It is obvious from the graph that the downward trend prevailed in the numbers of both the new shops and the ones that ceased working within the period in question, and that the number of closed shops exceeded the number of stores that entered the world of commerce by the end of 2018.
in 2011, about 8,5 thousand novel shops were introduced to the public, which was roughly two thousand more than the number of stores that were closed that year. The former amount dropped more than twice, to nearly 4000 in the next year. The situation improved slightly in 2015, when the number of shops opened surpassed 6000 and was almost equal to the number of the shops that were terminated. However, these figures never dominated within the years described and fluctuated between 3,500-4,500 before finally reaching hitting the lowest point of 3000 in 2018.
The number of shops that closed started off at approximately 6,200 in 2011. It fluctuated for three years before witnessing a significant fall in 2015, going under 1000 in that year. The number recovered by 2016, and remained relatively stable at the level of about 5000 in the following two years.