, the gender distribution of the population was 49.7% male and 50.3% female. The population was made up of 524 Swiss citizens (93.1% of the population), and 39 non-Swiss residents (6.9%) Of the population in the municipality 217 or about 43.8% were born in Anwil and lived there in 2000. There were 142 or 28.7% who were born in the same canton, while 85 or 17.2% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 34 or 6.9% were born outside of Switzerland.