Ethnography of Balisca

The ethnography of Balisca is reflects a cultural mosaic ("mosaico cultural") of various ethnicities. In fact, immigration to Balisca was so strong that it eventually became the country with the second highest number of immigrants, with 19.8 million, second only to the United States with 27 million, and ahead of such other immigratory receptors such as Argentina, Brazil and Australia.

According to the 2021 Baliscan census, over 450 "ethnic or cultural origins" were self-reported by Baliscans. The major panethnic origin groups in Balisca are: European (21%), Arab (14.8%), Asian (9.2%), Anhangá Indigenous (21.1%), African (24.8%), Latin, Central and South American (12.5%), Caribbean (2.1%), Oceanian (0.6%), and Other (0.4%). Balista reports that 44.9% of the population reported multiple ethnic origins, thus the overall total is greater than 100%.

The country's ten largest self-reported specific ethnic or cultural origins in 2021 were Baliscan (accounting for 15.6 percent of the population), followed by Catalan (14.7 percent), Italian (12.1 percent), Araucarian (12.1 percent), Occitan (11.0 percent), Arab (8.1 percent), Indigenous (4.7 percent), Javanese (4.3 percent), South Asian (3.7 percent), and Berber (3.5 percent).

Following the conclusion of the Baliscan War of Independence, the newborn country had a large territory but was thinly populated, and its ethnic composition was largely the same from the colonial era that had lasted from 16th to early 19th centuries. In the mid-19th century, a large wave of immigration started to arrive due to newly established constitutional policies that encouraged immigration, and due to issues in the Old World such as wars, poverty, hunger, social unrest and pursuit for opportunities or a better life in the New World.