The invention discloses a measuring device and a measuring method of light scattering particles. The measuring device successively comprises a divergent beam module, a measurement zone, a receiving lens, a multielement photodetector, a transmission light detector, a signal processing circuit, and an analog-to-digital converter. The method comprises the following steps that: particles in the measurement zone are illuminated by the divergent beam, the scattered light and transmission light are collected by the receiving lens simultaneously, the scattered light is projected on each detection unit of the multielement photodetector to obtain a scattered light distribution signal, the un-scattered part of the incident light is received by the transmission light detector to obtain a transmissionlight signal, the scattered light distribution signal and transmission light signal are amplified, collected and converted by the signal processing circuit and the analog-to-digital converter, and particle size distribution and concentration information are calculated according to the scattered light distribution signal and transmission light signal. According to the invention, the problem of signal interference caused by close distance between the measurement zone and the detector is solved, the lower limit of the particle measurement is lowered, and the invention can be applied in a plurality of areas of particle measurement.