An absorber (1) provided to an absorbent article, wherein the absorber (1) is formed by folding back an absorbent sheet body (2), which comprises a first sheet member (3) and a second sheet member (4) and contains an absorbent polymer (5) but does not contain a pulp fiber between the first sheet member (3) and the second sheet member (4), at both end parts (E) in the width direction, and an absorbent polymer is not disposed between the first sheet member (3) and the second sheet member (4) at the both end parts (E).