In 2009, the year of the high-profile closures, there were 16,635.
"Recent high-profile closures will lead to more retail space becoming available on the market.
The demise of 4Children follows the high-profile closures of Kids Company, and the adoption charity BAAF in August 2015.
There have been high-profile closures of bars and clubs in Kings Cross and on Oxford Street, with several pointing the finger squarely at the lockout laws.
High-profile closures, including chains such as Woolworths and Zavvi, have added to this spiral.
The economic downturn that began in 2008 triggered a number of high-profile closures at chains including Woolworths, Zavvi and Habitat.
The golden age of irrational exuberance on Kickstarter has ended — Pebble is shutting down, marking the fall of crowdfunding's white knight after a string of other high-profile closures and failures.
The economic downturn that began in 2008 has added to problems besetting High Street shops, helping to trigger a number of high-profile closures at chains including Woolworths, Zavvi and Habitat.
But despite the optimism, the high-profile closure last December of Silk Road – a US-based online marketplace where payments for drugs and other contraband were made in bitcoin – has damaged the digital currency's reputation in formal financial sectors.
The most high-profile closure is that of the central London delivery office in Rathbone Place, which serves W1, WC1 and WC2, which Great Portland Estates has just bought for £120m.
The crowded latter half of the Broadway season has its first high-profile closure: Matthew Lombardo's play "High," starring Kathleen Turner, right, as a nun whose faith is tested while working with a young drug addict, will close on Sunday, press representatives for the show said on Wednesday.
