* Forecast.
The source employs a comparatively narrow definition of the online education market and includes only education courses, contents, and advisory services oriented towards end consumers. In addition, only courses and services that were paid online and not bound to a fixed place of conduction were taken into account. , the online
education market was estimated at 346.8 billion yuan in 2019 and 423 billion yuan in 2020.
One yuan equals approximately 0.15 U.S. dollars and 0.13 euros (as of February 2021).
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Value of online education market in China 2016-2024
According to a comparatively narrow market definition, online education in China had a market size of approximately billion yuan in 2020. After high growth rates in the past years, market growth is forecast to slow down to an CAGR of about **** percent in the upcoming years.
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