To provide a woven or knitted fabric in a multilayer-structure having excellent water absorption and diffusion evaporative property, rapidly absorbing perspired sweat, contacted water and fed water and enabling the water to be dried in a short time, to provide a method for producing the woven or knitted fabric, and to provide a fiber product.

The woven or knitted fabric in the multilayer-structure having the excellent water absorption and diffusion evaporative property, includes an infrared-absorbing fiber having 1 dtex single fiber fineness at least in a back surface layer, and a fiber having 1 dtex single fiber fineness in a front surface layer.