The chart provides information about the number of shop closures and openings in one country during years 2011 and 2018.
Overall, a high price fluctuation is observed in the graph between these years and it is clear that most of the shops get closed.
Starting with shop openings, around 8.500 new stores opened in year 2011, however this price significantly dropped to bellow 4.000 in the following year 2012. The next year 2013 arose a to 5.000 and the second high price it is observed on year 2014 that 6.000 stores opened. The following years 2015, 2016, 2017 number of new shops is almost the same, around 4.000. The lowest price it is observed on the year 2018 that for the first time during these years, only 3.000 stores opened.
In contrast to store opening, it is observed a bigger fluctuation on store closure. In 2011, 6.300 stores closed and the following year 2012, 2013, 2014 the number varies from 6.000 to 7.100 and then back again to 6.400. After that stable period the number significantly dropped to 800 in year 2015 but that means that the bigger amount of them remained open. Next year 2016, number returned on the previous amount of closures around 5.100 shops and remained stable with the price of 5.000 in 2017 and 5.100 in 2018.
In summary, although at the first look it seems like closures are more than openings, after a careful look it is observed that despite the fluctuations, the figure ends up being roughly the same as in the beginning.