Crush of a slit of an absorbent body is suppressed. Provided is an absorbent article including an absorbent element (50) obtained by wrapping an absorbent body (56) in a wrapping sheet (58), wherein the wrapping sheet (58) includes an intermediate part (58m) located on one side of a front side and a back side of the absorbent body (56) and both side parts (58s) folded back to the other side of the absorbent body (56) from the intermediate part (58m), the both side parts (58s) are overlapped with each other on the other side of the absorbent body (56), an over lapped part is bonded through a hot melt adhesive (H3) to form a connecting portion (58c), at least a surface of the absorbent body (56) on a side of the connecting portion (58c) is bonded to an internal surface of the wrapping sheet (58) through hot melt adhesives (H1 and H2), and the connecting portion (58c) of the wrapping sheet (58) extends in a width direction to extend over both widthwise sides of a slit (54) provided in the absorbent body (56).
