Provided are: an electrical steel sheet which has a high saturation magnetic flux density and a low high-frequency iron loss; and a production method for the electrical steel sheet. This electrical steel sheet has the center of the thickness of the steel sheet as a plane of symmetry and comprises: surface layer sections which have a Si concentration which continuously varies from a high concentration to a low concentration from the steel sheet surfaces in the thickness direction; interface sections which have a Si concentration which discontinuously varies; and an inner layer section which hasa Si concentration which substantially does not vary in the thickness direction, and includes the center of the thickness. The surface layer sections have an in-plane tensile stress, and the inner layer section has an in-plane compressive stress. The average aspect ratio of crystalline particles in the surface layer sections, which is the ratio of a dimension in a direction parallel to the sheetsurface to a dimension in a direction perpendicular to the sheet surface (depth direction), is 0.7-4.0.