A light-bulb-shaped fluorescent lamp accommodates in an outer housing that includes a transparent globe and a case, a bent fluorescent tube that has a pair of electrodes at both ends and contains an amalgam and a rare gas, and an electronic lighting circuit lighting the fluorescent tube. A light-bulb-shaped fluorescent lamp which has high conformity to regular light bulbs and realizes the same brightness as a regular 60 W light bulb while consuming less power than a conventional light-bulb-shaped fluorescent lamp is provided by setting the external diameter of the globe in the range of 55-65 mm, the total length of the globe in the range of 65-80 mm, the internal diameter of the fluorescent tube in the range of 7-11 mm, and the distance between the electrodes in the range of 200-280 mm.