COLOMBO, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) -- More than one out of every five households in Sri Lanka owns a computer or a laptop, the local media reported on Wednesday.

Quoting the statistics released by the Sri Lankan Census and Statistics Department, Sri Lanka's Daily FT newspaper reported that digital literacy is outstripping computer literacy as smartphone usage grows in the country.

According to the statistics, a computer was available in 22.9 percent of households in the country. And this number is 39.5 percent in the urban sector of Sri Lanka.

According to the Department, the computer literacy among the employed population in Sri Lanka is around 61.7 percent in the first half of 2018.

"Different patterns of internet usage can be observed among districts. In the first half of 2018, Colombo district showed the highest percentage of 44.9 percent of population using internet while Badulla district shows the lowest percentage of 10.1 percent," the Department said.