An absorbent article (1) comprises a front sheet (2), a back sheet (3), and an absorbent body (4) situated in a laminate of the front sheet and back sheet. It further comprises a waist expandable-and-shrinkable member (11) disposed in the laminate so as to be expandable and shrinkable in the widthwise direction W. The waist expandable-and-shrinkable member is disposed between the absorbent body and the front sheet in the thickness direction and is bonded to the front sheet, a portion of the waist expandable-and-shrinkable member is overlapping and in contact, but non-bonded to the absorbent body in the thickness direction, a portion of the waist expandable-and-shrinkable member that is not overlapping with the absorbent body in the thickness direction is bonded to the back sheet.
