The line graph illustrates the number of shop closures and openings from 2011 to 2018.
Overall, the figures for shop openings and closures fluctuated constantly. The number of shops witnessed rapid increase or decrease. Also, the graph shows a huge difference between the maximum and minimum values.
Reaching a peak in 2011, shop openings fell steadily from 8,500 to 3,900 between 2011 and 2012. Then, from 2012 to 2014, shop openings soared wildly from 3,900 to 6,100. After which, it slumped down from 6,100 to 4,000 among 2014 and 2015, a decrease of 2,100 units. Between 2015 and 2016 the number of shop openings stabilized at 4,000. From 2016 to 2017 the figure for shops slowly climbed to 4,100 and then, hitting a low in 2018 reaching 3,000. The difference between the maximum and the minimum is 5,500.
At the same time, the shop closures gradually declined from 6,500 to 5,900 between 2011 and 2012. After which from 2012 with 5,900 increased until 2013, reaching a peak of 7,200.After which the number of closed stores began to decrease to 6,600 in 2014. What followed by a sharply plummeted to 8,00 in 2015 reaching a low of. Then, between 2015 and 2016, the figure soared from 8,00 to 5,200. Subsequently, since 2015 to 2018 the closures shop fluctuated between 5,200 and 5,000 returning to 5,200. Overall, the closures shop had a difference of 6400 closed stores between 2013 and 2015.
