Provided is a disposable wearing article capable of pulling up absorbent structure when holding up an upper end of a back waist region.The article (10) has vertical and lateral directions Y,X and a front-back direction orthogonal to them, body facing and non-body facing surfaces, and includes front and back waist regions (13, 14) and a crotch region (15) including an absorbent structure (85) to absorb body fluids. The back waist region (14) includes a back waist belt (23) extending in the lateral direction (X) and to being put in contact with the body of a wearer and a downward openable pocket (30) facing the back waist belt (23) at the middle in the lateral direction(X) thereof. The pocket (30) includes a pocket outer wall (43), a pocket inner wall (42) facing the back waist belt (23) and the pocket outer wall (43) therebetween, the back waist belt (23) and the pocket inner wall (42) are contiguous to each other at a contiguous lower edge (31) of the back waist belt and the pocket inner wall, and the pocket inner wall and the pocket outer wall are contiguous to each other at contiguous upper edge (33) of the pocket inner wall and the pocket outer wall. The back waist region (14) includes both first joining areas (81A) spaced apart from each other in the lateral direction (X) and joining the back waist belt (23) and the pocket inner wall (43) to each other. The first joining areas (81A) include respective inside parts (81b) located on respective inner sides of any of respective imaginary lines (L3) extending upward along respective lateral side edges of the absorbent structure (85) and respective outside parts (81c) located on the respective outer sides of the respective imaginary lines (L3) and the respective lateral side edges of the absorbent structure (85) in the lateral direction (X).
