Provided is an absorbent article (1) comprising a skin-side sheet (2), a non-skin-side sheet (3), and an absorbent core (4) long in the front/rear direction. The absorbent article (1) has an excretion section-facing section (B) arranged facing the fluid excretion area of a wearer and a rear section (C) arranged to the rear. The absorbent core (4) has a standard absorption area (43) and an excretion section middle high area (40) arranged in the center in the width direction, of the excretion section-facing section (B) and being thicker than the standard absorption area (43). The excretion section middle high area (40) has: a center thick section (41) having a shape in the planar view having a long axis in the longitudinal direction of the absorbent core (4)； and side thick sections (42) expanding outwards from each side edge along the longitudinal direction of the center thick section (41).
