, the gender distribution of the population was 49.6% male and 50.4% female. The population was made up of 216 Swiss citizens (90.0% of the population), and 24 non-Swiss residents (10.0%) Of the population in the municipality 53 or about 23.1% were born in Burg im Leimental and lived there in 2000. There were 35 or 15.3% who were born in the same canton, while 103 or 45.0% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 32 or 14.0% were born outside of Switzerland.