Disclosed is a silver halide color photographic material comprising a support, photosensitive silver halide emulsion layers grouped into at least three units according to their color sensitivities, each of which comprises a blue-sensitive, green-sensitive or red-sensitive silver halide emulsion, a color developing agent and a coupler, and a light-insensitive layer, wherein the photographic material has a total silver coverage of at most 5.0 g/m.sup.2, and at least one emulsion comprised in the highest-speed emulsion layer of at least one of each unit is a tabular silver halide emulsion that comprises tabular silver halide grains having an average thickness of from 0.05 to 0.20 .mu.m.