In order to provide artificial leather having both strength (in particular, tensile strength and tear strength), surface appearance, and a dense feeling in artificial leather including a
fiber-entangled body containing a
nonwoven fabric made of ultrafine fibers containing a large amount of
inorganic particles (in particular,
metal compounds) as a constituent element, and an elastic
polymer, the artificial leather of the present invention is artificial leather including a
fiber-entangled body containing a
nonwoven fabric made of ultrafine fibers having an average
single fiber diameter of 1.0 um or more and 10.0 um or less as a constituent element and an elastic
polymer, and satisfies the following requirements: (1) the ultrafine fibers include a
polyester-based resin containing a
manganese-based compound; (2) an average particle
diameter of the
manganese-based compound is 0.01 um or more and 0.20 um or less; and (3) the ultrafine fibers contain a
manganese element in an amount of 0.1 ppm or more and 50.0 ppm or less in 100
mass% of the ultrafine
fiber.