An absorbent article adapted to ensure a reduced dimension in a thickness direction and a soft texture for not creating discomfort to the wearer, and further, to ensure that bodily fluids should not stay in the irregularities for a long period. A sanitary napkin (10) as an example of the absorbent article has a longitudinal direction Y, a transverse direction X and a thickness direction Z orthogonal to one another, and includes a liquid-pervious topsheet (21) lying on a skin-facing side facing the wearers skin a backsheet (22) lying on a non-skin-facing side opposite to the skin-facing side and a liquid-absorbent structure(20)interposedbetweenthetopsheet21andthebacksheet (22). The liquid-absorbent structure (20) includes a liquid-pervious first sheet (21) lying on the skin-facing side, a second sheet (22) lying on the non-skin-facing side and a liquid-absorbent core (23) interposed between the first sheet (21) and the second sheet (22). The liquid-absorbent structure (20) is partially formed with depressions (30) compressed in a direction from the non-skin-facing side toward the skin-facing side. The depressions (30) include high pressure compressed depressions (31) having a relatively small dimension in the thickness direction Z and low pressure compressed depressions 32 having a relatively large dimension in the thickness direction . A plurality of the high pressure compressed depressions (31) are formed so as to be scatteredabout inthelongitudinaldirection Y as well as in the transverse direction X. The low pressure compressed depressions (32) are formed so as to connect the high pressure compressed depressions (31) to each other in the longitudinal direction Y as well as in the transverse direction X.
