PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an absorbent article, even when the absorbent article is laterally deviated during being worn, causing an absorber to quickly absorb the urine without discharging urine laterally by controlling a flow direction in such a manner as to pass the discharged urine along a recessed groove.SOLUTION: The absorbent article includes at least a strip of urine inflow recessed groove 22 formed along a longitudinal direction at a skin-side surface. The cross-sectional shape of the recessed groove 22 is formed to satisfy the following conditions. (1) When the depth of a bottom face of the recessed groove is h, a relationship of the depth with a distance S from a bottom edge G of the recessed groove to an upper edge K from which the recess of the recessed groove is started is 1.5h
