PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an absorbent article exerting a favorable fitting property at the periphery of a crotch part of a wearer and capable of effectively preventing lateral leakage.SOLUTION: This absorbent article 1A includes a liquid-permeable top sheet 2, a liquid-impermeable back sheet 3, and an absorbent core 4 disposed therebetween and has the longitudinal direction and the width direction. This absorbent article 1A is folded at two upward folds extending in the longitudinal direction and aligned in the width direction, and at a downward fold 9 provided between the two upward folds 8 and extending in the longitudinal direction, to be formed into a substantially M-shape in the cross section.
