The line graph illustrates the number of closed shops and opened shops from 2011 to 2018.
Overall, it is apperant that both figures experienced a downward trend and fluctuation over the period. Additionally, closures had the lowest number in the middle of the period.
Looking at the graph in more details, in 2011, there were about 8500 openings and approximately 6500 closures. After 4 years, despite a fluctuation during this time, the figure for the openings finally stood at 4000 shops. Similarly, after experiencing a fluctuation, the closures sharply decreased and reached the lowest point of around 500 shops in 2015.
During the latter half of the timeframe, the number of opening nearly remained stable from 2015 to 2017, and then it declined to 3000 stores at the end of the period. Meanwhile, the closures increased dramatically and surpassed the openings’ figure by 1200 stores in 2016. Although this data slightly fell in 2017, it finally returned to 5200 shops at the end of the period.