The invention discloses a barrel type axial flow fan which comprises an outer barrel, a driving part, an impeller and a plurality of guide blades. The outer barrel is provided with an air inlet end and an air outlet end, the impeller is installed on an output shaft of the driving part, the impeller comprises a plurality of vanes, the impeller and the guide blades are located in the outer barrel, and the guide blades are located on the side, close to the air outlet end, of the impeller. The two ends of the guide blades are fixedly connected with the inner wall of the outer barrel and a mounting base respectively, the guide blades are arranged on the periphery of the mounting base in a surrounding mode and are circumferentially distributed in an unequal-angle mode, the arrangement angle difference psi of the guide blades is equal to (360 degrees/n)-a*theta, wherein n is the number of the guide blades, theta is the unequal-distance angle difference of the blades, a is a proportionality coefficient larger than 3 and smaller than 6, and theta is larger than 1 degree and smaller than 10 degrees. The axial flow fan has the beneficial effects that the working efficiency of the axial flow fan is guaranteed, meanwhile, the noise intensity at the fundamental frequency is reduced, the advantage of good sound quality is achieved, and the advantage of low interference capacity of noise to people in the working process of the axial flow fan is achieved.