To provide an absorbent article ensuring that even when the excreted urine diffuses by running down the wearers skin, the skin is prevented from remaining wetted. In the absorbent article of the present invention, when an artificial urine is dropped and absorbed in the urination region of the crotch region 13, where an absorbent sheet 60 is not disposed, the return amount of the artificial urine in the buttock region of the rear waist region 12, where an absorbent sheet 60 is disposed, takes a value of 200 times less than the return amount of the artificial urine in the urination region and the return amount of the artificial urine in the buttock region when the artificial urine is dropped and absorbed in the buttock region takes a value of 0.7 or less of the return amount of the artificial urine in the urination region when the artificial urine is dropped and absorbed in the urination region.
