An object information acquiring apparatus comprises a light irradiation unit configured to irradiate lights having different wavelengths respectively an acoustic wave receiving unit configured to receive an acoustic wave by each of the lights having different wavelengths respectively, and convert into an electric signal that corresponds to each of the lights having different wavelengths a characteristic information acquiring unit configured to acquire characteristic distribution related to each position in the object based on the electric signal a statistics acquiring unit configured to acquire a histogram from the characteristic distribution and an image information acquiring unit configured to acquire image information causing a display device to display the characteristic distribution in the object and the histogram.
