PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an absorptive article that appropriately prevents leakage through a crotch portion during a wearers movement.SOLUTION: A pant type paper diaper 1 includes an absorptive body 10 containing an absorber, and an external cover body 20 provided on the external surface of the absorptive body and having a belly-side part F located on the belly and a back-side part B on the back when worn, while by connecting the both side ends of belly- and back-side parts of the external cover body, respectively, a waist opening and a pair of leg openings are formed. The absorber has the belly-side absorber 131 and back-side absorber 132 separated from each other in the longitudinal direction of the absorptive body in a crotch part M between these parts and also between legs of a body. A flexible elastic part 27 around the legs, while crossing a space area S between these first and second absorbers in the external cover body, is arranged in the space area.
