Provided is a carrier for a developer of an electrostatic latent image, the carrier including a core particle, and a resin layer covering the core particle, where the resin layer includes metal compound particles, wherein the metal compound particles include magnesium compound particles or barium compound particles, and an exposed amount B (atomic %) of the magnesium or the barium on a surface of the carrier particle satisfies a relationship below: 10.0≥B≥1.2.