, the gender distribution of the population was 49.1% male and 50.9% female. The population was made up of 1,682 Swiss men (39.8% of the population) and 393 (9.3%) non-Swiss men. There were 1,794 Swiss women (42.5%) and 354 (8.4%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality 491 or about 16.2% were born in Confignon and lived there in 2000. There were 1,148 or 37.9% who were born in the same canton, while 563 or 18.6% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 715 or 23.6% were born outside of Switzerland.