The article is devoted to the research of educational indicators in the system of ensuring economic security at the national level. The author proposed the methodical approach to assessing the level of the educational component in the system of economic security, which involves the following steps: the educational indicators systematization; justification of the nature of their impact on the level of economic security; calculation of the indicators system's limit values, that will allow identifying the security grades (critical, dangerous, unsatisfactory, satisfactory, safe, optimal); construction of the integral security index and calculation of its limit values; carrying out empirical calculations and analyzing the obtained results. To the system of educational indicators as measures of the economic security level, the author proposed to attribute the following: the government expenditures on education to GDP, the government expenditures on education to the total government expenditures; gross enrollment ratio in tertiary education; the Education Index as a component of the Human Development Sndex, the education development index in the structure of the Global Innovation Index, Education as a sub-pillar the Global Prosperity Index; the access to knowledge index as a component of the Social Progress Index; The Global Knowledge Index. Practical testing of the proposed approach based on a sample of EU countries and Ukraine made it possible to calculate the indices of the educational component of security and to rank countries according to its values. The highest integral ratings for the level of education development in the system of ensuring economic security were obtained for such countries as Estonia, Sweden, Latvia, Cyprus, Malta, Ukraine, Denmark, Belgium, Slovenia, and the Netherlands. It has been proven that 89 % of the EU countries can be classified according to the educational component as countries that are safe compared the rest of the world for the stability and security of economic development. Key words: education, educational indicators, economic security, index of the educational component of security, limit values of security indicators