To expand the housing space of an electric refrigerator used for housing a heat exchanger having better cooling power.

In the electric refrigerator, the housing space for housing the heat exchanger 3 having better cooling power is obtained by forming a recessed section 23 by depressing the upper part on the heat exchanger 3 side of a heat insulating partition wall 21 which separates a refrigerating room F in which the heat exchanger 3 is housed and a cold storage room R from each other to the cold storage room R side.