Disclosed are: a method for the production of lower olefin and a catalyst for the production of the same that has excellent efficiency in producing lower olefin from oxygen-containing compounds and maintains activity over a long period of time. The disclosed catalyst is a solid catalyst which produces lower olefin from oxygen-containing compounds, and is characterised by the inclusion of a solid catalyst component containing a MFI zeolite, and the fact that among the positions of all the inner sections of the structure of the solid catalyst, the thickness equal to twice the minimum distance to the outer surface, at the point where said minimum distance is at its greatest, is not less than 0.1mm and not greater than 2.0 mm.