Rural Croatia went through great changes
in the last decades, especially changes of a
quantitative nature: the number of
inhabitants decreased, the number of
agricultural inhabitants decreased, the
number of farms decreased
(insignificantly) and so did their average
size, the area of agricultural land
decreased etc. Qualitative changes are
primarily reflected in the rapidly
increasing number of part-time workers,
part-time households and "new"
inhabitants who are changing the social
picture of the village. All these changes
are such that the modernization of the
Croatian village can hardly as yet be
spoken of. In comparison with more
developed countries, these are only the
beginnings of the transformation of the
traditional village
