A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes, in at least one of a region between an end of a first internal electrode layer which is not connected to a second external electrode and the second external electrode, and a region between an end of a second internal electrode layer which is not connected to a first external electrode and the first external electrode, in a length direction, a defect portion provided on a plane including a stacking direction and a width direction, such that the defect portion is located between the first dielectric ceramic layers in the stacking direction and is located between the second dielectric ceramic layer and the third dielectric ceramic layer in the width direction.