An absorbent article that has a length direction, a width direction, and a thickness direction, each of which is perpendicular to the other two. In said absorbent article, a liquid-permeable top sheet, a liquid-permeable second sheet, an absorber, and a liquid-impermeable back sheet are layered together in that order in the thickness direction. Each widthwise side of the absorbent article has a compressed section in which the top sheet, the second sheet, and the absorber are compressed in the thickness direction from the side on which the top sheet is located. This absorbent article is characterized in that: the widthwise edges of the second sheet are folded over such that the second sheet has a pair of double-layer sections on the widthwise edges thereof and a single-layer section in the widthwise middle thereof and in the lengthwise middle of the absorbent article, at least parts of the double-layer sections of the second sheet are located outwards of the absorber in the width direction.一種吸收性物品,係具有互相正交的長方向、寬幅方向及厚度方向,且在厚度方向依序層積液透過性的頂面薄片、液透過性的第二薄片、吸收體、以及液不透過性的背面薄片,在寬幅方向的兩側部形成有從頂面薄片側朝厚度方向壓縮頂面薄片、第二薄片、以及吸收體的一對的壓縮部之吸收性物品,其特徵為:第二薄片,是藉由折返寬幅方向的兩端部而具有位在寬幅方向的兩端部的一對的2層部;以及位在寬幅方向的中央部的1層部,第二薄片具有之2層部的至少一部分,在長方向的中央部比吸收體更位在寬幅方向的外側。1‧‧‧(生理用)衛生棉(吸收性物品)11‧‧‧本體部4‧‧‧吸收體3‧‧‧第二薄片3b‧‧‧邊緣10‧‧‧翼部4a‧‧‧邊緣2‧‧‧頂面薄片70‧‧‧低壓縮部7‧‧‧第1壓縮部(壓縮部)71‧‧‧高壓縮部3a‧‧‧折返邊緣30‧‧‧2層部31‧‧‧1層部8‧‧‧第2壓縮部81‧‧‧高壓縮部80‧‧‧低壓縮部6‧‧‧接合部1a‧‧‧長方向的端部1b‧‧‧長方向的中央部
