An object is the disclosure is to provide an absorbent article that allows the wearer to have a feeling of assurance during replacement, by visual confirmation that the absorbent article has absorbed menstrual blood and that the menstrual blood is held inside the absorbent body. The absorbent article of the disclosure is as follows. An absorbent article having a liquid-permeable top sheet, an absorbent body, a liquid-impermeable back sheet and a second sheet between the top sheet and absorbent body, the absorbent article having the features that, in a liquid dropping test, [1] the liquid residue rate of the top sheet and second sheet is no greater than 3.0 mass%, and [2] the fluid diffusion length in the longitudinal direction of the absorbent article on the skin contact surface of the top sheet is shorter than the fluid diffusion length in the longitudinal direction of the absorbent article on the clothing side surface of the absorbent body.本發明係提供更換時吸收性物品吸收經血,藉由可用目視確認經血保留在吸收體的內部,著用者可得到安心感之吸收性物品。具有液透過性的頂部薄片、吸收體、液不透過性的背部薄片、與上述頂部薄片及吸收體間的第二薄片的吸收性物品,其特徵係在液體滴下試驗中,[1]上述頂部薄片及第二薄片的液體殘存率為3.0質量%以下,且[2]上述頂部薄片的皮膚接觸面的吸收性物品之長度方向的液體擴散長度比上述吸收體的著衣側面的吸收性物品之長度方向的液體擴散長度來得短。
