Disclosed is an illumination device that is capable of suppressing uneven brightness. The illumination device is equipped with LEDs (17), a
chassis (14) that houses the LEDs (17), and a light-reflecting sheet (22) for the
chassis that is disposed on the inner surface of the
chassis (14) and is capable of reflecting the light from the LEDs (17); and is characterized in that the light-reflecting sheet (22) for the chassis has a sheet bottom section (31) extending along the surface of a base plate (14a) and a sheet oblique section (32) extending from the edge of the sheet bottom section (31), in that the sheet oblique section (32) slants in relation to the sheet bottom section (31) toward the
light emission side of a backlight device (12), and in that the optical
reflectivity of a boundary section (F2), which is the region along the
border line (L) between the sheet bottom section (31) and the sheet oblique section (32) and includes said
border line (L), on the surface of the LED (17) side of the light-reflecting sheet (22) for the chassis is set higher than the optical
reflectivity of separate-side neighboring sections (F1, F3) that neighbor on sides of the boundary section (F2) separated from the
border line (L).