An absorbent article having a thickness direction, a widthwise direction, and a lengthwise direction which are perpendicular to one another, and having an absorbent body exhibiting liquid absorbency and a top sheet for covering the absorbent body from the skin side in the thickness direction, wherein: the absorbent body has a folding guide line that guides in a manner such that folding occurs, projects toward the skin-side in the thickness direction, and is oriented in the lengthwise direction the absorbent body and the top sheet are joined to one another by a plurality of dot-patterned compressed sections and the dot-patterned compressed sections are not formed in at least the center section in the lengthwise direction, in guided-folding regions having a width no greater than the thickness of the absorbent body and provided on both sides of the folding guide line in the widthwise direction.
