The present invention aims to provide an absorbent article with a barrier sheet preventing body waste from coming in contact with a wearers skin, on one hand, and to prevent an opening area of one or two through-holes formed in the barrier sheet from being reduced during use of the article, on the other hand.An absorbent article including a barrier sheet 3 facing a wearers skin and adapted to be spaced from a chassis in a crotch region and a pair of leak-barrier cuffs 4 attached to the barrier sheet 3 on its side facing a wearers skin so as to extend in a front-to-rear direction Z. The barrier sheet 3 and the leak-barrier cuffs 4 are bonded together by means of joint zones 48. The joint zones 48 are located on respective free edges of the leak-barrier cuffs 4 which can be spaced from the chassis so as to overlap respective one of barrier sheets elastic members 39.
