There is provided a multilayer ceramic capacitor. The multilayer ceramic capacitor includes an effective layer including inner electrodes and dielectric layers that are alternately stacked, and a protection layer formed on each of top and bottom surfaces of the effective layer, the protection layer being formed by stacking dielectric layers. The effective layer has an outside part, an inside part and an outside part in that order along a stack direction, the inner electrodes of the outside parts have a smaller thickness than that of the inner electrodes of the inside part, and the outside parts have a thickness 0.1 to 0.5 times that of the protection layer.