Task 1
Task 1
Task 1
and opened during 7 years in a country. Overall, it can be seen that both
of shop closures and opening tended to decrease in 2018.
On the one hand, in 2011 the number of shops that closed were approximate at 6,400. In
the next year, the amount dropped at 6000 shops. In 2013, these shop closures increased
lightly to 7100, and then had a decline to 6700 in 2014. In 2015, the number of shops had a
trend to close significantly drop to below 1000. However, these shops totally jumped to
5100 in 2016. Afterwards, in the last three years it fluctuated between 5000 and 5100.
On the other hand, in the year 2011, the total group of shops that opened were really
large, which were around 8500 shops. However, there was a dramatic downward, more
than 4000 were reduced in 2012 and a significant increased from 4000 to just above 6000
from 2012 to 2014. Additionally, there was a drop to 5000 in 2015 and stay remained
unchanged at 4000 for 2 years; then the shops gradually reduced again to 4000 in 2018.