1. An image evaluation device comprising: an information acquiring unit acquiring, from an image containing at least one face, information about the size and the position of a face of interest of the at least one face; an evaluation value calculating unit statistically calculating an evaluation value representing a result of evaluation of the image based on the information about the size and the position of the face of interest; the information acquiring unit acquiring information about a distance to the face of interest contained in the image from a face nearest to the center of the image, and the evaluation value calculating unit calculating the evaluation value based on the information about the distance.