Disclosed is an apparatus and method for analyzing a histogram of an image, the apparatus comprising an image input module for buffering an input image, a block calculator for performing a blocking operation for dividing the image into pixel blocks of a predetermined size, and extracting and outputting a representative pixel of each block obtained in a corresponding blocking, a probability density function (PDF) operator for calculating a first histogram using all pixels of the image, and calculating a second histogram using the representative pixels input from the block calculator, and an image characteristic comparator for receiving the first and second histograms determining whether the received histograms satisfy an identity criterion and calculating a third histogram of a following image when the identity criterion is satisfied.