 There were 818 Swiss women (46.7%) and 48 (2.7%) non-Swiss women.Of the population in the municipality 701 or about 44.3% were born in Ried-Brig and lived there in 2000.There were 578 or 36.5% who were born in the same canton, while 192 or 12.1% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 87 or 5.5% were born outside of Switzerland.