The present invention is a light-emitting device which is provided with a phosphor layer containing a blue phosphor, wherein the phosphor layer includes an aluminate phosphor, as the blue phosphor, that contains Ba, Sr, Eu, Mg, Al and O as constituting elements at an atom-number ratio Ba:Sr:Eu:Mg:Al:O=p:q:r:1:w:17 wherein 0.70≦p≦0.95, 0≦q≦0.15, 0.05≦r≦0.20, p+q+r≧1, and 9.8≦w≦10.5 are satisfied, and a value of a linear coupling function s represented by a formula:
s=−11622+2043.07La+199.24L1−116.91L2
is 1 or less, when a lattice constant is La(Å), an interatomic distance between Al(2) and O(5) is L1(Å), and an interatomic distance between Al(1) and O(4) is L2(Å), which are obtained by an X-ray crystal structure analysis assuming that the aluminate phosphor belongs to a space group P63/mmc.