A magnetic carrier comprising a magnetic carrier particle having a magnetic carrier particle having a magnetic carrier core particle and a resin coat layer formed on the magnetic carrier core particle surface, and inorganic fine particles A present on a surface of the magnetic carrier particle, wherein each of the inorganic fine particles A has a rectangular parallelepiped particle shape, the inorganic fine particles A have D1 of 10 to 60 nm, the inorganic fine particles A are inorganic particles which have been surface treated with a surface treatment agent or silane coupling agent-treated particles, SP1 of the resin coat layer and SP2 of the surface treatment agent satisfies SP1SP214.00, and the coverage ratio of the magnetic carrier surface by the inorganic fine particles A as measured by ESCA is 5.0 to 20.0 atom %: and a two-component developer comprising at least the magnetic carrier and a toner.

A carrier for electrostatic image development includes: a core material; and a coating resin layer that contains inorganic particles and covers the core material. The content of the inorganic particles is 10% by mass or more and 60% by mass or less based on the total mass of the coating resin layer. The volume average diameter D (m) of the inorganic particles and the thickness T (m) of the coating resin layer satisfy the following relational expression (1): 0.007D/T0.24.

A toner includes toner base particles and an external additive. The external additive is adhered to surfaces of the toner base particles, which contain a crystalline polyester resin and an ester wax. The proportion of an ester compound with a carbon number of C.sub.1, the content of the ester compound with a carbon number of C.sub.1 being highest among the ester compounds constituting the ester wax, is 65 mass % or more with respect to 100 mass % of the ester wax. The carbon number distribution of the ester compounds constituting the ester wax has only one maximum peak in a region where the carbon number is 43 or more. The external additive contains silica particles having a volume average primary particle diameter D.sub.50 of 40 to 75 nm. The moisture content of the silica particles is less than 1.0 mass % with respect to 100 mass % of the silica particles.

An electrostatic image developing toner includes toner particles, layered compound particles, and inorganic particles. The content of titanium in the electrostatic image developing toner is 0.1 ppm or more and less than 1,500 ppm.

An electrostatic image developing toner includes toner particles, layered compound particles, and inorganic particles. The proportion of irregular-shaped inorganic particles having a circularity of 0.5 or more and 0.9 or less and a size of 0.015 m or more and 0.350 m or less to the entire inorganic particles is 2% by number or more and 70% by number or less.

An electrostatic-image developer includes a toner and a resin-coated carrier. The toner includes toner particles including a binder resin, a release agent, and a non-ionic surfactant. The resin-coated carrier includes magnetic particles and a resin layer covering the magnetic particles. The resin layer includes inorganic particles having a volume resistivity of 110.sup.0 .Math.cm or more and 110.sup.4 .Math.cm or less.

An electrostatic-image developer includes a toner and a resin-coated carrier. The toner includes toner particles including a binder resin, a release agent, and a non-ionic surfactant. The resin-coated carrier includes magnetic particles and a resin layer covering the magnetic particles. The resin layer includes inorganic particles having a volume resistivity of 110.sup.0 .Math.cm or more and 110.sup.4 .Math.cm or less.

An electrostatic charge image developer contains a carrier including a core and, on the core, a silicone resin-containing layer serving as a lower layer, and an acrylic resin-containing layer serving as an upper layer, or a carrier including a silicone resin-containing core and an acrylic resin-containing layer on the silicone resin-containing core; strontium titanate particles having an average primary particle size of 20 nm or more and 100 nm or less; and a toner. The percentage of a silicone resin exposed on a surface of the carrier is 0.5 area % or more and 20 area % or less.

Provided is an electrostatic charge image developer containing toner particles and carrier particles, wherein the toner particles contain at least silica particles or alumina particles as an external additive; the carrier particles contain core material particles and a coating resin layer covering a surface of the core particles; the coating resin layer contains metal oxide particles; an element measured by XPS (photoelectron spectroscopy) of the carrier particle is at least Si or Al; and a content of Si or Al in the carrier particle is in the range of 1 to 6 at % with respect to the total elements constituting the carrier particles.

A carrier for developing an electrostatic latent image includes a core material particle and a resin layer covering a surface of the core material particle. The resin layer includes a resin and at least one kind of a fine particle. At least one kind of the fine particles includes a chargeable fine particle. The chargeable fine particle has a long diameter of 400 to 900 nm. The chargeable fine particle has a shape factor SF-1 of 160 to 250.