Disclosed in the present disclosure are a driver attention monitoring method and apparatus and an electronic device. The method includes: capturing, by a camera arranged on a vehicle, a video of a driving area of the vehicle; determining, according to each of multiple frames of face images of a driver in the driving area included in the video, a type of a gazing area of the driver in the frame of face image, where the gazing area of each frame of face image is one of multiple types of defined gazing areas obtained by dividing a space area of the vehicle in advance; and determining an attention monitoring result of the driver according to a type distribution of gazing areas of the frames of face images included within at least one sliding time window in the video.