In Ukraine, the effective model of socio-economic development of the national economy that fully reflects its national interests, including economic ones, and serves as the macroeconomic theoretical basis of effective state economic policy, has not been formed and accordingly has not been implemented. Nowadays Ukraine, in rather difficult conditions, defines the purpose and directions of achieving its independent future and chooses the parameters of the socio-economic and geopolitical model of the further development of the national economy, which should become the basis for the functioning of the state in the 3rd millennium. Therefore, in the framework of this study, firstly, the models and types of socio-economic development of national economies of different countries already described in the scientific literature and existing in practice are considered, and secondly, characteristic signs of the existing state of the national economy of Ukraine and the most likely variant of the model of its socio-economic development are outlined. The paper proves the fact that the innovative model of the pre-emptive socio-economic development of modern society and the national economy of Ukraine in particular has no alternative among other models of functioning of the economy, such as, for example, the model of traditional development, model of catching up development, etc. And only the transition of the country to a model of advanced socio-economic development, in which scientific knowledge will be the main source of economic growth, technological innovations and information, can ensure the establishment of Ukraine in the status of a developed state with a competitive economy and will create preconditions for solving social problems. Moreover, the researched best practices show that contemporary history knows no examples of, on the one hand, forming of highly developed, flexible and efficiently functioning economy without market and, on the other hand, highly efficient socially oriented market economy without the leading regulating role of a state. Therefore, the further research will be devoted to examining of theoretical and methodological foundations of forming of the parity of economy state regulation and market self-regulation.