An absorbent article (1) that has a length direction a width direction and a thickness direction each of which is perpendicular to the other two. In said absorbent article (1) a liquid permeable top sheet (2) a liquid permeable second sheet (3) an absorber (4) and a liquid impermeable back sheet (5) are layered together in that order in the thickness direction. Each widthwise side of the absorbent article (1) has a compressed section (7) in which the top sheet (2) the second sheet (3) and the absorber (4) are compressed in the thickness direction from the side on which the top sheet (2) is located. The widthwise edges of the second sheet (3) are folded over such that the second sheet (3) has a pair of double layer sections (30) each of which comprises both a bonded region (35) in which the top layer (33) of that double layer section (30) and the bottom layer (34) of that double layer section (30) are bonded together and a non bonded region (36) outside said bonded region (35) in the width direction in which the top layer (33) and the bottom layer (34) of that double layer section (30) are not bonded together. In the lengthwise middle (1b) of the absorbent article (1) at least parts of the aforementioned non bonded regions (36) are located outwards of the abovementioned compressed sections (7) in the width direction.
