In 2020, at least one computer was available in 22.2 percent of households in the country. That is about one out of every five households own either a desktop or a laptop computer.
This percentage is 37.1 in the Urban Sector and Rural and Estate sector show 20.1 percent and 3.8 percent respectively. When the provinces are considered the highest availability is in the Western province (35.1%) while the lowest availability is reported from the Uva (11.9%), According to Computer Literacy Statistics – 2020 (Annual) Department of Census and Statistics Sri Lanka. Computer literacy among males (34.1%) is higher than that of females (30.7%) in 2020. Youth (aged 15 – 19 years) show the highest computer literacy rate (67.9%) among all other age groups.
The survey results reveal that the higher the level of education higher the computer literacy. The group with A/L or above level of education shows the highest computer literacy rate (74.3%). Also, computer literacy is higher among those who are literate in the English language (74.0%). The survey results show an increase of 3.7 percentage points from 2017 to 2020. The urban sector shows the highest computer literacy rate (45.4%) among residential sectors. The computer literacy rate for the Rural and Estate sectors are 30.7 percent and 12.7 percent respectively. Among the provinces, the highest level of computer literacy is reported from the Western province (45.2%). The lowest computer literacy is reported from the Northern province (18.0%). The percentage of the Computer Literate population (Computer Literacy) over the survey periods has been gradually increasing. Overall Computer Literacy reported in 2020 for Sri Lanka is 32.3 percent
Among the unemployed, the aged (25-29) group shows the highest computer literate population percentage (79.2%). Annual results reveal that among the unemployed many have at least some ICT skills. Even among the group aged 40-69 every one out of three is computer literate (32.3%) in 2020. Computer literacy among the employed population who are aware of computers in Sri Lanka is around 65.2 % in 2020. The positions such as senior officials and managers (78.3%), professionals (90.3%), technical and associate professionals (87.7%), clerks and clerical support workers (94.2%) have higher computer literacy rates. Also, even among the individuals engaged in elementary occupations, 34 percent are computer literate.
When digital literacy is considered 50.1% (aged 5-69) has digital literacy. Digital literacy is higher than computer literacy for all disaggregated levels, showing the drift from personal computers to smartphones/tablets.
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