The sphere of educational services in the context of world globalization

The article deals with the history of the emergence, formation and development of the knowledge economy in the context of the globalization of economic processes. The article analyzes the stages of transition and transformation of the educational services sector into the most important level of the knowledge economy. The main sectors of the economy of modern knowledge and their structural and functional features are defined. Based on the complex economic economy index, which is calculated in accordance with the methodology of the World Bank, an analysis was made of current trends in the ranking of countries in the formation of national knowledge economies. According to the analysis, it is concluded that countries with developed economic structures still occupy a leading position in the ranking of economic structures based on knowledge. However, developing countries and countries of the former USSR have the greatest rate of dynamic changes in the formation of the knowledge economy. The necessity of transition of the Ukrainian economy to the knowledge economy platform under the conditions of the third industrial revolution and its prospects in the sixth technological order is grounded.