A developer feeding screw, which includes a shaft and a helical shape portion around said shaft, for feeding a developer in a direction of an axis of said shaft by rotation about the axis, said feeding screw, the improvement residing in that:a sectional configuration of said helical shape portion in a plane including the axis satisfies:Z(r)=kln(ro/r)where z(r) is a height of said sectional configuration at radius r with z(ro)=0 (ro is an outer radius of the helical configuration):r is a radius (0<r≦ro)k is a constant.