To provide a nonwoven fabric and a formed nonwoven fabric free from thermal deformation and keeping constant air permeation even by using in a high-temperature atmosphere of 100-150C and attaining high sound-absorbing performance even under the above condition.

The nonwoven fabric is obtained by laminating two layers comprising an air-permeation controlling layer and a sound absorbing layer. The air-permeation controlling layer uses a drawn polyester fiber and an undrawn polyester fiber and has an air permeability of 0-50 cc/cm2s, and the sound absorbing layer uses a drawn polyester fiber and a polyester copolymer fiber having a melting point of 110-200C. A polyester copolymer fiber may be used as an additional component in the air-permeation controlling layer.