Provided is an absorbent article which can diffuse a body fluid rapidly to enable the effective use of the entire area of an absorbent material, and which is free from the problem of stuffiness or wrinkling after the absorption of a body fluid and therefore is reduced in wearer discomfort. The absorbent article (10) according to the present invention is provided with a liquid-permeable front surface sheet (14), a liquid-impermeable back surface sheet (12), and an absorbent material (13) arranged between the front surface sheet (14) and the back surface sheet (12), wherein multiple compressed lines (23), in each of which multiple depressed parts (22) formed by compressing the front surface sheet (14) and the absorbent material (13) together are aligned, extend on the front surface sheet (14) side, and the multiple compressed lines (23) form intersecting areas (21D) in each of which two among the multiple compressed lines (23) intersect each other, and no compressed and depressed part (22) is formed in the intersecting areas (21D).
