This article is devoted to the development of digital education in the global economy; special attention is paid to the problems of digitalization of the educational process under the influence of socio-economic threats on a global scale in the context of special demographic and social conditions. The article specifies the main reasons for the emergence of digitalization problems and the ways to solve them. The article substantiates the exceptional role of digital technologies in the digitalization of education, analyzes existing information technologies and highlights the main trends and prospects for their development; describes the opportunities and key challenges of digital transformation of education. The research reveals the weaknesses of the traditional education system in the context of globalization, identifies fundamentally new consumer needs in the market of educational services, and considers prospective digital systems that meet the requirements of modern society.