A zoom lens includes: a first lens group having a negative refractive power; and a second lens group having a positive refractive power, provided in this order from an object side. The first lens group includes a first lens having a negative refractive power and a second lens, which is plastic, having a positive refractive power. The zoom lens satisfies the following conditional formulae, when Nd1n is the refractive index of the first lens with respect to the d line, Nd1p and νd1p are the refractive index and the Abbe's number of the second lens with respect to the d line, respectively, d2 is the spatial distance between the first lens and the second lens along an optical axis, and fw is the focal length of the entire system at the wide angle end: 1.48