An absorbent article is provided that is likely to be in close contact with users body. An absorbent article, including: a base body that includes a fluid-permeable surface sheet, a fluid-impermeable back face sheet, and a liquid-absorbent core between the surface sheet and the back face sheet, and that has a width direction and a longitudinal direction intersecting the width direction and, that has, at both side sections in the width direction, compressed sections in which the fluid-permeable surface sheet and the liquid-absorbent core are compressed along the longitudinal direction of the base body in either one of a continuous manner and an discontinuous manner and an absorbent body that includes a liquid-absorbent member, that has a width direction and a longitudinal direction intersecting the width direction, and that has a minimum section whose length along the width direction of the absorbent body is shortest the absorbent body being place on the fluid-permeable surface sheet of the base body in such a manner as the longitudinal direction of the base body is the same as the longitudinal direction of the absorbent body, in a portion that is in the base body and on which the minimum section of the absorbent body is placed, a length between a pair of the compressed sections provided in the both side sections, along the width direction of the base body, being equal to or more than a length of the minimum section of the absorbent body along the width direction of the absorbent body.
