This absorbent article (1) has sufficient pliability even when an absorbent body (4) is bonded to a transport material, a wrap material, etc., and is pleasant to wear. In this absorbent article, an absorbent body includes at least a hydrophilic fiber-containing hydrophilic fiber layer (5) having multiple non-through slits (8), and in the surface opposite of the surface having the slits, the hydrophilic fiber layer has multiple recesses (9) in positions corresponding to the multiple non-through slits in the thickness direction of the absorbent article (1).
